Remember..-

Remember me when I am gone away,
gone far away into the silent land,
when you can no move hold me by the hand,
No I half turn to go, yet turning stay.
Remember me when no more day by day,
you tell me of our future that you plann'd:
only remember me you understand.
It will be late to counsel then or pray.
Yet if you should forget me for a while
and afterwards remember, do not grieve:
For if the darkness and the coruption leave
A vestige of thoughts that once I had
Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.

Christna Georgina Rossetti 1830-1894