“Friends depart, and memory takes them
To her caverns, pure and deep.”

—  Thomas Haynes Bayly

Teach me to forget, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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English poet, songwriter, dramatist, and writer 1797–1839

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