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First Line: The heart's not always still nor memory kind
Last Line: And, by this change, I knew that you were there.
Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley
Subject(s): Home


THE heart's not always still nor memory kind;
And so it was that in the fire's red flame
Were foolish things, remembered bits of blame,
Forsaken projects, good things half designed;
With all the anxious memories she could find
Wild, laughing as of old, that woman came
And my whole future in her web of shame
She with her taunting memories sought to bind.

I dreamed into the coals that warmly burned
And did not hear your footfall on the stair;
Perhaps you went to your accustomed chair --
I know the gentler mood of things returned;
Dreams grew more kind, those memories less spurned,
And, by this change, I knew that you were there.





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