Remember me when I’m gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land,
Where 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 Georgina Rossetti
1830 – 1894
Taken from “The Top 500 Poems” – Columbia University
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