Let me not die for ever! when I'm laid <br />In the cold earth; but let my memory <br />Live still among ye, like the evening shade, <br />That o'er the sinking day steals placidly. <br />Let me not be forgotten! though the knell <br />Has tolled for me its solemn lullaby; <br />Let me not be forgotten; though I dwell <br />For ever now in death's obscurity. <br />Yet oh! upon the emblazoned leaf of fame, <br />Trace not a record, not a line for me, <br />But let the lips I loved oft breathe my name, <br />And in your hearts enshrine my memory!<br /><br />Frances Anne Kemble<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-wish-ii/
