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Remember
Christina Georgina Rossetti. 1830-1894
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 counsel 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.
From: Quiller-Couch, Arthur.
The Oxford Book of Verse. (1900)
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