Poetical Fragments from Ethel Churchill Volume II/Memory
For works with similar titles, see Memory (Letitia Elizabeth Landon).
CHAPTER VII.
AN ALLUSION TO THE PAST.
Ah! there are memories that will not vanish;
Thoughts of the past we have no power to banish;
To shew the heart how powerless mere will,
For we may suffer, and yet struggle still.
It is not at our choice that we forget,
That is a power no science teaches yet:
The heart may be a dark and closed up tomb;
But memory stands a ghost amid the gloom!
Blanchard’s title is:
MEMORY
In the New York Mirror (10th March 1838), as Memory