Song: When I Am Dead, My Dearest

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Title:     Song: When I Am Dead, My Dearest
Author: Christina Georgina Rossetti [More Titles by Rossetti]

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.

[The end]
Christina Georgina Rossetti's poem: Song: When I Am Dead, My Dearest

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