How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start
When memory plays an old tune on the heart!


Old Dobbin, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).


How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start When memory plays an old tune on the heart!

How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start When memory plays an old tune on the heart!

How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start When memory plays an old tune on the heart!

How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start When memory plays an old tune on the heart!