Christina Rossetti’s “Remember”

Remember me when I am gone away,

        Gone far away into the silent land;

        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 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 corruption leave

         A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,

Better by far you should forget and smile

        Than that you should remember and be sad.