Memory and Oblivion. Macedonius of Thessalonica (c. 500-560 A.D.). Poems of Sentiment: III. Memory. Bliss Carman, et al., eds. 1904. The World's Best Poetry. VI. Fancy

Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume VI. Fancy. 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.