Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MEMORY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS


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MEMORY, by                    
First Line: When often I think and dream of thee
Last Line: As I live those days with thee once more.
Subject(s): Love; Memory; Past; Thought; Time; Thinking


When often I think and dream of thee
From out of the past there comes to me
The song of birds, the moan of the sea,
The love that still lives in memory.
So back to the past I often flee
And live in the days that used to be.

Our mountains and forests cry to me,
An empty setting where thou shouldst be:
Heaven made that setting, love, for thee,
And thou canst grace it most royally.
Our world is waiting to give thee love,
The earth beneath and the sky above.

The waters that flow down to the sea
In showers again come back to me
With rainbow promise of sun through rain
That those olden days will come again.
As Heaven gives water from the sea,
Wilt thou not return thy love to me?

Those days still live in fond memory,
Olden and golden, they stay with me:
The summer-house with its dreams of love,
The lake beneath and the sky above.
Love rides on the water, rules the shore,
As I live those days with thee once more.





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