You Cannot Make Remembrance Grow

You cannot make remembrance grow

When it has once lost its root.

The tightening the soil around

And setting it upright

Deceives perhaps the universe

But not retrieves the plant;

Real memory, like cedar feet

Is shod with adamant

Nor can you cut remembrance down

When it shall once have grown,

Its iron buds will sprout anew

However overthrown.

... Emily Bronte