Love
Song: I saw from yonder silent cave
From Evenings in Greece
I saw from yonder silent cave,
Two Fountains running side by side;
The one was Memory's limpid wave,
The other cold Oblivion's tide.
"Oh Love!" said I, in thoughtless mood,
As deep I drank of Lethe's stream,
"Be all my sorrows in this flood
"Forgotten like a vanisht dream!"
But who could bear that gloomy blank
Where joy was lost as well as pain?
Quickly of Memory's fount I drank.
And brought the past all back again;
And said, "Oh Love! whate'er my lot,
"Still let this soul to thee be true--
"Rather than have one bliss forgot,
"Be all my pains remembered too!"
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MLA
Moore, Thomas. “Song: I saw from yonder silent cave.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/moore/542/.
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Moore, Thomas. “Song: I saw from yonder silent cave.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/moore/542/.
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