REMEMBER
by: Christina Rossetti
(1830-1894)
 EMEMBER 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.
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"Remember" is reprinted
from Goblin Market and other Poems. Christina Rossetti.
Cambridge: Macmillan, 1862. |
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