For You Departed

"The halcyon days. I write of them with unbelievable longing to have again what one cannot have again, so that my desire to relive what cannot be relived begins actually to war against my knowledge, final and ineluctable, that it cannot be done. ... The halcyon days. And that means not only the sweetest days of life, it means also the days that cannot be lived again, except in memory." Alan Paton