“Where is delight? and what are pleasures now?—
Moths that a garment fret.
The world is turned memorial, crying, "Thou
Shalt not forget!"”

—  Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

Mandragora, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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