Picture Show (Sassoon collection)/Memory
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MEMORY
When I was young my heart and head were light,And I was gay and feckless as a coltOut in the fields, with morning in the may,Wind on the grass, wings in the orchard bloom. O thrilling sweet, my joy, when life was free, And all the paths led on from hawthorn-time Across the carolling meadows into June.
But now my heart is heavy-laden. I sitBurning my dreams away beside the fire:For death has made me wise and bitter and strong;And I am rich in all that I have lost.O starshine on the fields of long-ago, Bring me the darkness and the nightingale; Dim wealds of vanished summer, peace of home, And silence; and the faces of my friends.