Thursday, November 20, 2008

Remember

Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land;
When you can no more hold me by the hand,
Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.
Remember me when no more day by day
You tell me of our future that you plann'd;
only remember me; you understand
it will be late to cousel then or pray.
Yet if you should forget me for a while.
And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
For if the darkness and corruption leave
A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
Better by far you should forget and smile
than that you should remember and be sad.
By Christina Georgina Rossetti
1830-1894,b.England

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