Song

Song
Christina Georgina 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.