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Frederick Philip Grove
THOUGHTS
(IM 1-14)
e-Edition by Gaby Divay
© August 2007
How to cite this e-Edition
of Grove's Poems: In Memoriam
THE SPECTRAL PAST[47]
by
Frederick Philip Grove
Oh, many are the moods that come
to me,
Sometimes of hope, more often of despair;
And each unlocks as with a magic key
A chest of treasure terrible and rare;
Where like a magic jewel I preserve
The memory of some moment sweet and keen,
With power yet to thrill or to unnerve
And to evoke things felt or heard or seen.[48]
Let it be love or anguish, joy or pain
Which I revive by this occult device,
Yet do I taste the flavour once again
Of that which does not come to mortals twice.
Thus by a double mirror do I raise
The sleeping phantoms of a fossil past
Which has its limits in my length of days
For mood and memory also do not last.
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Grove, Frederick Philip. POEMS:
In Memoriam Phyllis May Grove. THOUGHTS (IM1-14).
e-Edition, Gaby Divay. Winnipeg: UM Archives & Special
Collections, ©2007.
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