I sit beside my lonely fire
And pray for wisdom yet:
For calmness to remember
Or courage to forget.


Remember or Forget, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).


I sit beside my lonely fire And pray for wisdom yet: For calmness to remember Or courage to forget.

I sit beside my lonely fire And pray for wisdom yet: For calmness to remember Or courage to forget.

I sit beside my lonely fire And pray for wisdom yet: For calmness to remember Or courage to forget.

I sit beside my lonely fire And pray for wisdom yet: For calmness to remember Or courage to forget.