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Ah! there are memories that will not vanish; Thoughts of the past we have no power to banish; To shew the heart how powerless mere will, For we may suffer, and yet struggle still. It is not at our choice that we forget, That is a power no science teaches yet: The heart may be a dark and closed up tomb; But memory stands a ghost amid the gloom!