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Teach me to forget

Thomas Haynes Bayly

Friends depart, and memory takes them To her caverns, pure and deep.

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker says that when friends leave, memory carries them off to its own deep, unspoiled hollows, where they are kept. Absence becomes a kind of storage: people fade from daily view but are preserved inwardly, with a gentle, wistful acceptance.

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