And the false one forget—if he will!
They say that the heart which once truly shall love,
With love must continue to burn,
Though the idol unworthy devotion shall prove,
And away from the altar we turn;
But ’tis false!—for in man there’s a spirit of hate,
When he wills it that spirit to move,
And ’twere then all as easy to hate and forget
As it were to remember and love!
What! think you forever to fetter the mind