Memory, no less than hope, owes its charm to “the far away.”

More from A Lament.

• Two lives that once part are as ships that divide When, moment on moment, there rushes between The one and the other a sea; Ah, never can fall from the days that have been A gleam on the years that shall be!
• A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
• Alone!-that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word ALONE!
• Ambition has no risk.
• Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword.
• Buy my flowers,-oh buy, I pray! The blind girl comes from afar.