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I cannot forget him!
 I try to be gay
To quell the wild sorrow
 That rises alway;

But wilder and darker
 It swells, as I try;
If Heaven could forget him,
 So never can I!

I cannot forget him!
 I loved him too well!
His smile was endearment,
 His whisper a spell.

I fly from his presence;
 Alas! it is vain;
I see him—I hear him—
 He's with me again!

He haunts me forever;
 I worship him yet;
Oh! idle endeavor!
 I cannot forget!