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 had planned
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 vesitge of the thoughts that I once had,
Better by far that you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.
- Christina Georgina Rosetti