Illustration for the poem "the palimpsest": love reads ". . A thickly-covered page,/which youth or age/had writ, and cross'd and so reross'd,/meaning seem'd lost" while "vagrant memory, hovering near,/whisper'd his ear. " it's a record of inconstancy (to individual women, not to love in general). Once a week magazine, volume 1, page 470. Date: 3 December 1859.
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