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George Gordon Byron - On Revisiting Harrow
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Here once engaged the stranger`s view
   Young Friendship`s record simply traced;
Few were her words; but yet, though few,
   Resentment`s hand the line defaced.

Deeply she cut--but not erased,
   The characters were still so pain,
That Friendship once return`d, and gazed,--
   Till Memory hail`d the words again.

Repentance placed them as before;
   Forgiveness join d her gentle name;
So fair the inscription seem`d once more, 
   That Friendship thought it still the same.

Thus might the Record now have been;
   But, ah, in spite of Hopes endeavour,
Or Friendships tears, Pride rush`d between 
   And blotted out the line for ever.

September 1807
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