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Consider me a memory -- a dream / That passed away, / Or yet, a flower that has blown and shattered --
In a day; / For passion sleeps, alas, and keeps no vigil / With the years, / And wakens to no conjuring / Of orison or tears.
Consider me a melody / That served its simple turn, / Or but the residue of fire / That settles in the urn, / For love defies pure reasoning / And undeterred flows / Within -- without / The vassal heart!
Its reasoning --
Who knows?