Memory

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Title:     Memory
Author: Isabel Ecclestone Mackay [More Titles by Mackay]

A YEAR is a thief
Who comes in the guise of a friend
Saying, "Let us travel together,
We have much to give each other.
See, I hold back nothing--
For what is giving
Between friends?"

Yet when the year departs
He takes his gifts with him--
"Oh, Robber!" we cry,
Aghast and weeping,
"Nay," he replies, "I did but lend.
Still, for your weeping, I will leave you something.

It is not the real thing
But you may keep it always."

[The end]
Isabel Ecclestone Mackay's poem: Memory

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