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 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 awhile
And afterwards remember, do not grieve
For if the darkness and corruption leave
A vestige of a thoughts that once I had
Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.


-Christina Georgina Rossetti