Help!

[abu nuwas]

I was to-day speaking with a 90 year old lady, who reels off masses of stuff she has by heart, and she said she had always remembered the words of Ethel Mannin (I thought she said Manning, at the time, but seems doubtful):

''Learn by heart, by heart
For I have seen books burn''

I can't track this down. Does anyone, by some remote chance, know where they come from?


While I am at it, some while ago, I asked for help in tracking down this poem--where these are the first lines:

''Down in the lost and April days
What lies we told, what lies we told,
When nakedness seemed the one disgrace,
And there'd be time enough to praise
The truth when we were old.

So many people now on the Pig -- anyone? Please? The second one appeared in a little anthology called 'This Half-Century'