Poetical Fragments from Ethel Churchill Volume II/Remembrance

by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

For works with similar titles, see Remembrance.

CHAPTER XL.

THE REMEMBRANCE OF THE DEAD.

Pale Memory sits lone, brooding o'er the past,
That makes her misery. She looketh round,
And asks the wide world for forgetfulness:
She asks in vain; the shadow of past hours
Close palpable around her; shapes arise—
Shadows, yet seeming real; and sad thoughts,
That make a night of darkness and of dreams.
Her empire is upon the dead and gone;
With that she mocks the present, and shuts out
The future, till the grave, which is her throne,
Has absolute dominion.

Blanchard’s title is:

REMEMBRANCE