Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862)/Song ("When I am dead, my dearest")

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When I am dead, my dearest,Sing no sad songs for me;Plant thou no roses at my head,Nor shady cypress tree:Be the green grass above meWith showers and dewdrops wet;And if thou wilt, remember,And if thou wilt, forget.

I shall not see the shadows,I shall not feel the rain;I shall not hear the nightingaleSing on, as if in pain: And dreaming through the twilightThat doth not rise nor set,Haply I may remember,And haply may forget.