Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.
Poems of Sentiment: III. MemoryMemory and Oblivion
Macedonius of Thessalonica (c. 500560 A.D.)From the Greek by Robert Bland
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Trace, Memory, trace whate’er is sweet or kind:
When friends forsake us or misfortunes press,
Oblivion, ’rase the record from our mind.