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Remember me—not, I entreat, In scenes of festal week-day joy; For then it were not kind or meet Thy thoughts thy pleasures should alloy; But on the sacred Sabbath day, And, dearest, on thy bended knee, When thou for those thou lov’st dost pray, Sweet sister, then remember me.
Remember me—not, I entreat, In scenes of festal week-day joy; For then it were not kind or meet Thy thoughts thy pleasures should alloy; But on the sacred Sabbath day, And, dearest, on thy bended knee, When thou for those thou lov’st dost pray, Sweet sister, then remember me.
Approximate author period: c. 1829 AD · industrial
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- Edward Everett
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- Approximate author period: c. 1829 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 488 · printed citation: Edward Everett · subject: REMEMBRANCE
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