SONG
Christina Georgina Rossetti
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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 me
With 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 nightingale,
Sing on, as if in pain:
And dreaming through the twilight
That doth not rise nor set,
Haply I may remember,
And haply may forget.
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Christina Georgina Rossetti
1830-1894

A poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems. A muse to the Pre-Raphaelites, she is best known for her children's poem Goblin Market.

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~ Scored for Piano and Orchestra ~

Dent-de-Lion du Midi
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Jeffri Lynn Carrington
Soprano
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