Whether they have forgotten
Or are forgetting now
Or never remembered —
Safer not to know —
Miseries of conjecture
Are a softer woe
Than a Fact of Iron
Hardened with I know —
Whether they have forgotten
Or are forgetting now
Or never remembered —
Safer not to know —
Miseries of conjecture
Are a softer woe
Than a Fact of Iron
Hardened with I know —
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