When I am dead, my dearest, <br />Sing no sad songs for me; <br />Plant thou no roses at my head, <br />Nor shady cypress tree: <br />Be the green grass above me <br />With showers and dewdrops wet; <br />And if thou wilt, remember, <br />And if thou wilt, forget. <br /> <br />I shall not see the shadows, <br />I shall not feel the rain; <br />I shall not hear the nightingale <br />Sing on, as if in pain: <br />And dreaming through the twilight <br />That doth not rise nor set, <br />Haply I may remember, <br />And haply may forget.<br /><br />Christina Georgina Rossetti<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/when-i-am-dead-my-dearest/
