Landon in The Literary Gazette 1830/Memory
For works with similar titles, see Memory (Letitia Elizabeth Landon).
For works with similar titles, see Song (Letitia Elizabeth Landon).
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Literary Gazette, 8th May, 1830, Page 308
3. Memory.
A Voice of gentle singing
Went by upon the wind,
And an echo sweet is ringing—
The thought it left behind.
'Twas a song of other feelings
That belonged to other days,
Ere I marked the stern revealings
Of the curtain time must raise.
When my heart and step were lighter
Than they'll ever be again,
And the dream of hope was brighter—
For I believed it then.
That sweet song was of gladness,
Yet it has left with me
A shadow one-half sadness,
One-half dear memory.
Though the darkness of November
Around my heart be thrown,
Yet how pleasant to remember
The spring hours once its own!