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George Gordon Byron - Stanzas For Music: They Say That Hope Is Happiness
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They say that Hope is happiness; 
But genuine Love must prize the past, 
And Memory wakes the thoughts that bless: 
They rose the first--they set the last; 

And all that Memory loves the most 
Was once our only Hope to be, 
And all that Hope adored and lost 
Hath melted into Memory. 

Alas it is delusion all: 
The future cheats us from afar, 
Nor can we be what we recall,
Nor dare we think on what we are.
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