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Show Have We Forgotten? By DOUGLAS MALLOCH HAVE we forgotten, mourning losses And sadly counting as our crosses The absent ease, the missing pleasure, pleas-ure, As though these were our only treasure, treas-ure, Have we forgotten days behind us And do these little losses blind us To larger things, less rich, - less clever. We dreamed, and won, and have forever? for-ever? Have we forgotten all the walking Together arm-in-arm and talking, And asking this not asking whether We might be rich, but be together? Have we forgotten, love beside us, How little would have satisfied us, The things that set our pulses leaping, leap-ing, That we have kept, may go on keeping? keep-ing? Have we forgotten? Let's remember, remem-ber, And light again the' fading ember Of other days with less of scheming. schem-ing. With less of dross but more of dreaming. Have we forgotten? Let us never 1 We two are still as rich as ever, Yes, richer If this rougher weather Shall make us dream again together. , 1333. Douglas Malloch. WNU Service. |