- When
I Am Dead
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- When I am dead,
my dearest,
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- Sing no sad songs
for me.
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- Plant thou no
roses at my head,
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- Nor shady cypress
tree:
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- Be the green grass
above me
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- With showers and
dew drops wet:
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- And if thou wilt,
remember:
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- And if thou wilt,
forget.
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- I shall not see
the shadows.
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- I shall not feel
the rain;
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- I shall not hear
the nightingale
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- Sing on, as if
in pain:
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- And dreaming
throughout the twilight
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- That doth not
rise nor set,
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- Haply I may remember,
and haply may forget.
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---Christina Rosetti
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