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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.

— Christina Rossetti

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More quotes by Christina Rossetti

Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.

All earth’s full rivers can not fill
The sea that drinking thirsteth still.

Cheek to cheek and breast to breast
Lock’d together in one nest.

Like two wands of ivory
Tipp’d with gold for awful kings.

Goblin Market (1862)

One day in the country
Is worth a month in town.

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