<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115328" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Until death</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Make me no vows of constancy, dear friend,<br> To love me, though I die, thy whole life long,<br> And love no other till thy days shall end;<br> Nay, it were rash and wrong.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> If thou canst love another, be it so;<br> I would not reach out of my quiet grave<br> To bind thy heart, if it should choose to go:<br> Love should not be a slave.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> My placid ghost, I trust, will walk serene<br> In clearer light than gilds these earthly morns,<br> Above the jealousies and envies keen<br> Which sow this life with thorns.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Thou wouldst not feel my shadowy caress,<br> If after death my soul should linger here;<br> Men's hearts crave tangible, close tenderness,<br> Love's presence, warm and near.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> It would not make me sleep more peacefully<br> That thou wert wasting all thy life in woe<br> For my poor sake; what love thou hast for me<br> Bestow it ere I go.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Carve not upon a stone when I am dead<br> The praises which remorseful mourners give<br> To women's graces,---a tardy recompense,---<br> But speak thou while I live.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Heap not the heavy marble on my head<br> To shut away the sunshine and the dew;<br> Let small blooms grow there and let grasses wave,<br> And raindrops filter through.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Thou wilt meet many fairer and more gay<br> Than I; but, trust me, thou canst never find<br> One who will love and serve thee night and day<br> With a more single mind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Forget me when I die!---the violets<br> Above my rest will blossom just as blue,<br> Nor miss thy tears: e'en Nature's self forgets;---<br> But while I live, be true!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anne+Lynch+Botta">Anne Lynch Botta</a> from <i>Poems</i><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115328" data-title="Until death de Anne Lynch Botta" data-description="Make me no vows of constancy, dear friend,/ To love me, though I die, thy whole life long,/ And love no other till thy days shall end;/ Nay, it were rash and wrong./ If thou canst love another, be it so;/ I would not reach out of my quiet gra..."></div> </div> </div>

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