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"For gold could Memory be bought, / What treasures would she not be worth! / If from afar she could be brought, / I'd travel for her through the earth."
This exclamation once was made / By one who had obtained the name / Of young forgetful Adelaide; / And while she spoke, lo! Memory came --
If Memory indeed it were, / Or such it only feign'd to be: / A female figure came to her / Who said, "My name is Memory!
"Gold purchases in me no share, / Nor do I dwell in distant land; / Study, and thought, and watchful care / In every place may me command.
"I am not lightly to be won; / A visit only now I make; / And much must by yourself be done / Ere me you for an inmate take.
"The only substitute for me / Was ever found, is call'd a pen; / The frequent use of that will be / The way to make me come again. "