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Song.
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.