Lines Written On A Blank Leaf Of The Pleasures Of Memory

Absent or present, still to thee, My friend, what magic spells belong! As all can tell, who share, like me, In turn thy converse and thy song. But when the dreaded hour shall come By Friendship ever deem’d too nigh, And memory o’er her Druid’s tomb Shall weep that aught of thee can die, How fondly will she then repay Thy homage offer’d at her shrine, to And blend, while ages roll away, Her name immortally with thine!