Number the riches by thy memory hoarded,
Relics of joys thy by-past years have known, —
How many real things has life afforded?
How much true light was o'er thy pathway thrown?

"Illusions", st. 1, in E. Oakes Smith (ed.) The Mayflower: for MDCCCXLVII (Boston: Saxton & Kelt, 1847) p. 76. Third line altered in The Poet's Offering: for 1850, p. 346: "How many real things are there recorded?" The poem's epigraph is from Burke: "Shadows we are, and shadows we pursue."