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You will forget me: the years are so tender -- / They bind up the wounds which we think are so deep; / This dream of our youth will fade out as the splendor / Fades from the sky, when the sun sinks to sleep: / The clouds of forgetfulness, over and over, / Will banish the last rosy colors away; / And th' fingers of Time will weave garlands to cover / The scar which you think is a life-mark to-day.
You will forget me: -- will thank me for saying / The words which you think are so pointed with pain, / Time loves a new lay; and the dirge he is playing / Will change for you soon to a livelier strain. / I shall pass from your life, I shall pass out forever, / And the hours we have spent, will be sunk in the past. / Youth buries its dead: grief kills seldom, or never, / And forgetfulness covers all sorrows at last.