559. Music and Memory by John Albee. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900

Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.

559. Music and Memory

By John Albee


ENCHANTRESS, touch no more that strain!
I know not what it may contain,
But in my breast such mood it wakes
My very spirit almost breaks.
Thoughts come from out some hidden realm	5
Whose dim memorials overwhelm,
Still bring not back the things I lost,—
Still bringing all the pain they cost.