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Charles Lamb - Memory
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"For gold could Memory be bought,
  What treasures would she not be worth?
If from afar she could be brought,
  I`d travel for her through the earth!"


This exclamation once was made
  By one who had obtained the name
Of young forgetful Adelaide:
  And while she spoke, lo! Memory came.—


If Memory indeed it were,
  Or such it only feigned to be—
A female figure came to her,
  Who said, "My name is Memory:


"Gold purchases in me no share,
  Nor do I dwell in distant land;
Study, and thought, and watchful care,
  In every place may me command.


"I am not lightly to be won;
  A visit only now I make:
And much must by yourself be done,
  Ere me you for an inmate take.


"The only substitute for me
  Was ever found, is called a pen:
The frequent use of that will be
  The way to make me come again."
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