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They say that Hope is happiness, / But genuine Love must prize the past, / And Memory wakes the thoughts that bless, / They rose the first - they set the last;
And all that Memory loves the most / Was once our only Hope to be, / And all that Hope adored and lost / Hath melted into Memory.
Alas, it is delusion all, / The future cheats us from afar; / Nor can we be what we recall, / Nor dare we think on what we are.