Thursday, August 24, 2006

i was absolutely sure that i had read a poem once that started "remember me when i am gone away", and i had! not that it's at all appropriate now that i've seen it again, but it is rossetti. didn;t we do this for prac crit at some point?

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 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 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


#17: meeting people who have an actual sense of humour

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