WHEN THE LAMP IS BROKEN...

by Alexander Search · 1906
Published 01/07/1906

When the lamp is broken and the shaking

      Light is for ever fled,

There is more memory of its breaking

      Than of the light it shed.

This may common be, but 'tis not glad;

It means many things and all are sad.

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