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Remember, when the timid light / Through the enchanted hall of dawn is gleaming; / Remember, when the pensive night / Beneath her silver-sprinkled veil walks dreaming; / When pleasure calls thee and thy heart beats high, / When tender joys through evening shades draw nigh, / Hark, from the woodland deeps / A gentle whisper creeps, / Remember!
Remember, when the hand of fate / My life from thine forevermore has parted; / When sorrow, exile, and the weight / Of lonely years have made me heavy-hearted; / Think of my loyal love, my last adieu; / Absence and time are naught, if we are true; / Long as my heart shall beat, / To thine it will repeat, / Remember!
Remember, when the cool, dark tomb / Receives my heart into its quiet keeping, / And some sweet flower begins to bloom / Above the grassy mound where I am sleeping; / Ah then, my face thou nevermore shalt see, / But still my soul will linger close to thee, / And in the holy place of night, / The litany of love recite --
Remember!
Freely rendered from the French of Alfred de Musset.