“Then I turned to him commanding That he go the way he came, whence he came. But he answered me in sorrow, “May the Past not seek to borrow From the Present without blame – Just one memory from its store, Ere it goes to come no more, Back the pathway that it came, whence it came?””

“Then I turned to him commanding That he go the way he came, whence he came. But he answered me in sorrow, “May the Past not seek to borrow From the Present without blame – Just one memory from its store, Ere it goes to come no more, Back the pathway that it came, whence it came?””

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox