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 of our future that you planned
Only remember me ; you understand
It will be late to councel then or pray
Yet if you should forget me for a while
And afterwards remember, do not grieve
For it 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
- C. G. Rossetti -
The Golden Treasury - The World’s Classics