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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 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 vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.
Christina Rossetti 1830-1894
12 years ago
1 comment:
my favorite poet is robert graves; he's so erudite his poetry is sprinkled with allusions to greek and roman myths, and one often has to read him with dictionary in hand! e.g., "turbouillion" -
"she creates a turbouillion in men's minds"... then there's the poem he wrote to his ...ER...
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