“There are remembrances that will not vanish,—
Thoughts of the past we would but cannot banish:
As if to show how impotent mere will,
We loathe the pang, and yet must suffer still:
For who is there can say they will forget?
—It is a power no science teaches yet.”

—  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Title poem, section VII.
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)

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