Blossoms will run away,
Cakes reign but a Day,
But Memory like Melody
Is pink Eternally.
Cakes reign but a Day,
But Memory like Melody
Is pink Eternally.
(F.1614/J.1578)
[1, 2] Blossoms, Cakes, Day:: gifts in birthday.
[3] Memory:: memory verse, verse memorized for reciting; the scripture a student of Christian Sunday school should memorize. Melody:: a hint on verse.
[4] pink:: exquisite; smart, swell (OED a.1 3).
"This," she said, repeating from memory verse 17, "bears on what I said about the testimony I have to render" ─ The Living among the Dead (1860)
When the rule which is expressed in this memory-verse is rightly understood, it in probably the shortest and easiest of all the extant formulae for finding the real date of Easter. ─ Notes and Queries (1862)
