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Where memory sleeps the soul doth rise, / Free of that past where sorrow lies, / And storeth against future ills / The courage of the constant hills, / The comfort of the quiet skies.
Fair is this land to tired eyes, / Where summer sunlight never dies, / And summer's peace the spirit fills, / Where memory sleeps.
Safe from the season's changing cries / And chill of yearly sacrifice, / Great roses crowd the window-sills,- / Calm roses that no winter kills. / The peaceful heart all pain denies, / Where memory sleeps.