Remember...

Remember me when I am gone away. Gone far away into the silent night; 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 too late to counsel then or pray. Yet, if you should forget me for a while...and afterward remember, do not grieve. For if the darkness and corruption leave, a vistage of the thoughts that once I had.....
Better far you should forget and smile~than you should remember and sad....

by Chirstina Rossetti