Painterly empty wooden chair and small table on a sunlit terrace overlooking a valley.

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Thomas Moore

When Time who steals our years away Shall steal our pleasures too, The mem’ry of the past will stay, And half our joys renew.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

Even when Time takes away both our years and our pleasures, the verse says memory remains. Recalling the past does not restore everything, but it renews half our joys, offering consolation that lasting loss is softened by what we can still remember.

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