Within their hearts grew still—

Forgetting me, oh, ne’er!—and yet,

Alas! Alas! they did forget.

My name to them is now like some

Dim mem’ry of a song

They used to love to listen to—

But that was long since—long—

’Tis charmless now—and yet, and yet,

They said they never would forget.

A little time, and thou wilt write