<h3 id="Memory">Memory</h3>
<p>A YEAR is a thief<br/>
Who comes in the guise of a friend<br/>
Saying, “Let us travel together,<br/>
We have much to give each other.<br/>
See, I hold back nothing—<br/>
For what is giving<br/>
Between friends?”</p>
<p>Yet when the year departs<br/>
He takes his gifts with him—<br/>
“Oh, Robber!” we cry,<br/>
Aghast and weeping,<br/>
“Nay,” he replies, “I did but lend.<br/>
Still, for your weeping, I will leave you something.</p>
<p>It is not the real thing<br/>
But you may keep it always.”</p>
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