"THOUGH LOST TO SIGHT TO MEM'RY DEAR."
This line Las frequently been quoted, and iu almost every instance it is added that its authorship is unknown. A correspondent in an issue of the St. Louis Globe, of 1773, asserts that an author named Kuchven Jenkyns wrote the following in 1701, and published it in the Greenwich Magazine: Sweetheart, good by ! the fluttering sail Is spread to waft me far from thee ; And soon before the fav'ring gale My ship shall bound upon the sea. Perchance all desolate and forlorn, These eyes shall miss thee many a year, But unforgotten every charm, Though lost to sight to mem'ry dear. Sweet heart, good-by ! one last embrace, O, cruel fate, true souls to sever ; Yet, in this heart's most sacred place, Thou, thou alone shall dwell forever ! And still shall recollection trace In fancy's mirror every year, Each smile, each tear from that sweet face, Though lost to sight, to mem'ry dear.
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Westport Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1966, 13 January 1882, Page 4
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