Remember Thee

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h1 id="id01994" style="margin-top: 6em">REMEMBER THEE.</h1> <p id="id01995" style="margin-top: 2em">Remember thee? yes, while there's life in this heart,<br/> It shall never forget thee, all lorn as thou art;<br/> More dear in thy sorrow, thy gloom, and thy showers,<br/> Than the rest of the world in their sunniest hours.<br/></p> <p id="id01996">Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free,<br/> First flower of the earth, and first gem of the sea,<br/> I might hail thee with prouder, with happier brow,<br/> But oh! could I love thee more deeply than now?<br/></p> <p id="id01997">No, thy chains as they rankle, thy blood as it runs,<br/> But make thee more painfully dear to thy sons—<br/> Whose hearts, like the young of the desert-bird's nest,<br/> Drink love in each life-drop that flows from thy breast.<br/></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />