1. Remember me when I am gone away,
2. Gone far away into the silent land;
3. When you can no more hold me by the hand,
4. Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.
5. Remember me when no more day by day
6. You tell me of our future that you plann'd:
7. Only remember me; you understand
8. It will be late to counsel then or pray.
9. Yet if you should forget me for a while
10. And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
11. For if the darkness and corruption leave
12. A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
13. Better by far you should forget and smile
14. Than that you should remember and be sad.
1. Original Text: Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market and other Poems (Cambridge: Macmillan, 1862). end R673 G63 1862 Fisher Rare Book Library (Toronto). Text from Christina Rossetti, Poems (1890).
2. First Publication Date: 1862.
3. Composition Date: 1849