When I am dead, my dearest

Salam Sahabat,
Suatu ketika dalam suatu ceramahnya guru saya Kyai Hasyim Adnan menuturkan sebuah puisi, entah kenapa puisi itu mengena sekali bagi saya dan ternyata puisi itu karya seorang maestro dari London..berikut puisi tersebut,

~ When I am dead, my dearest ~

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 )

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