What's saved affords
No indication of what's lost.

What's saved affords
No indication of what's lost.

Praising what is lost Makes the remembrance dear.

Praising what is lost Makes the remembrance dear.

Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.

Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.

Now those memories come back to haunt meThey haunt me like a curse

Now those memories come back to haunt meThey haunt me like a curse

That loss is common would not make
My own less bitter, rather more:
Too common! Never morning read more

That loss is common would not make
My own less bitter, rather more:
Too common! Never morning wore
To evening, but some heart did break.

There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.

There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.

That puts it not unto the touch
To win or lose it all.

That puts it not unto the touch
To win or lose it all.

A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father,
while the loss of his inheritance might read more

A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father,
while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair.
[Lat., Gli huomini dimenticano piu teste la morte del padre, che
la perdita del patrimonie.]

But over all things brooding slept
The quiet sense of something lost.

But over all things brooding slept
The quiet sense of something lost.