Remembrance effaced is, though brains may be racked.
Of this, dost thou proof require, most worthy friend,
The text read: “What verse We annul, or We mend.”[218]
Again: “They my warning made you to forget.”[219]
By these is oblivion’s great power ’fore us set.
To make us remember, forget, they power have.
They’ve hearts subjugated o’er creation’s wave.130
Whene’er dull forgetfulness blinds eye of man,
No act can he do, howe’er wide his scan.
Dost dare, thou, great saints to make laughingstock?[220]