Memory

"Memory"

(included in Cliff Valentines)

Daughter of Love: and memory is her name

hail memory, hail the Lover’s faithful friend,

Who cheer’st the night of absence, [thro’] the gloom,

Bright visions conjuring with silver wand,

And spreading Light soft as the trembling gleam

 

Of moon Beams on the Lake, be thou the Guard

Of Constancy, and to that gentle Breast

Which then tonight dost visit, [future] forth

The living Image of her faithful Love[!]

 

And if it [aught] resemble her descent,

How bright[, how] fair! O may she ever bless

Thy Pow’r for many a dear [second’d] of joy

And not one sorrow visit her with thee!