2007
Song
Composed by 
Richard Pearson Thomas
Richard Pearson Thomas Text by 
Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti Twilight Song Collection
"Song" is the third and final song of Richard Pearson Thomas's song cycle Twilight, which sets the poetry of Christina Rossetti.
Text
Song
by Christina Rossetti
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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