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Quote, 08/20/2010

ejmoore510
13 years ago

My childhood's home I see again,

And sadden with the view;

And still, as memory crowds my brain,

There's pleasure in it, too.

O memory! thou midway world

'Twixt earth and paradisee,

Where things decayed and loved ones lost

In dreamy shadows rise,

And, freed from all that's earthly, vile,

Seem hallowed, pure and bright,

Like scenes in some enchanted isle

All bathed in liquid light.

As dusky mountains please the eye

When twilight chases day;

As bugle notes that, passing by,

In distance die away;

As, leaving some grand waterfall,

We, lingering, list its roar-

So, memory will hallow all

We've known but know no more.

from MEMORY by Abraham Lincoln

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