The mastery and magic of thy voice.

“Forget thee, dear?

God knows I would not if I could;

For sweeter far has been to me the pain

Of love unsatisfied than all the vain

And ill-spent years I lived before we met.

“Forget thee, dear?

God knows if I were lying dead to-day,

To ashes turned in a forgotten grave,

And to my dust he mercifully gave