SONG

When I am dead, my dearest, 1

Sing no sad songs for me;

Plant thou no roses at my head,

Nor shady cypress tree.

Be the green grass above me 5

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; 10

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, 15

And haply may forget.

Christina Rossetti. Song. 1862. The Victorian web. http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/crossetti/song.html