George Willis Cooke, comp. The Poets of Transcendentalism: An Anthology. 1903.
Music and MemoryJohn Albee (18331915)
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I know not what it may contain,
But in my breast such mood it wakes
My very spirit almost breaks.
Thoughts come from out some hidden realm
Whose dim memorials overwhelm,
Still bring not back the things I lost,—
Still bringing all the pain they cost.