Looks backward to another place
Remembered scenes renewing.
For I who once in Commons' Hall
The frugal feast was sharing,
With pleasure now those days recall
That time with this comparing.
Sometimes while sitting in my place,
The waiter's pleasure waiting,
Half dreamingly those scenses I trace
Their joys and sorrows rating-
Memorial's walls come crowding in,
Sinks down the lofty ceiling,
The pictures vanish, there within
Four blank-white walls revealing.
The tables narrow, crowd the chairs,
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A Change at Memorial.