Nothing Is Lost - Noel Coward

[Larry Robinson]

Nothing Is Lost

 

Deep in our sub-conscious, we are told 

Lie all our memories, lie all the notes 

Of all the music we have ever heard 

And all the phrases those we love have spoken,

Sorrows and losses time has since consoled.

Family jokes, outmoded anecdotes 

each sentimental souvenir and token 

Everything seen, experienced, each word 

Addressed to us in infancy, before

Before we could even know or understand

The implications of our wonderland.

There they all are, the legendary lies

The birthday treats, the sights, the sounds, the tears

 

Forgotten debris of forgotten years 

Waiting to be recalled, waiting to rise

Before our world dissolves before our eyes

Waiting for some small, intimate reminder,

A word, a tune, a known familiar sent

An echo from the past when, innocent 

We looked upon the present with delight 

And doubted not the future would be kinder 

And never knew the loneliness of night 

 

	- Noel Coward
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