Christina Georgina Rossetti



                   When I Am Dead, my Dearest


                   When I am dead, my dearest,
                   Sing no sad songs for me:
                   Plant thou no roses at my head,
                   Nor shady cypress tree: 
                   Be the green grass above me
                   With showers and dewdrops wet;
                   And if thou wilt, remember,
                   And if thou wilt, forget.
                   
                   I shall not see the shadows,
                   I shall not feel the rain;
                   I shall not hear the nightingale
                   Sing on, as if in pain;
                   And dreaming through the twilight
                   That doth not rise nor set,
                   Haply I may remember,
                   And haply may forget.


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