Remember and Forget

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.

- Christina Rossetti