“Thou fill'st from the wingèd chalice of the soul
Thy lamp, O Memory, fire-wingèd to its goal.”

—  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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

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