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Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.

Poems of Sentiment: III. Memory

Memory and Oblivion

Macedonius of Thessalonica (c. 500–560 A.D.)

From the Greek by Robert Bland

ALL hail, Remembrance and Forgetfulness!

Trace, Memory, trace whate’er is sweet or kind:

When friends forsake us or misfortunes press,

Oblivion, ’rase the record from our mind.