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Saturday, January 08, 2011

This is the poem I mentioned...

Isn't it lovely?
Remember

Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land;
When you can no more hold me by the hand,
Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.
Remember me when no more day by day
You tell me of our future that you plann'd:
Only remember me; you understand
It will be late to counsel then or pray.
Yet if you should forget me for a while
And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
For if the darkness and corruption leave
A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.
--Christina Georgina Rossetti



The poem in the video above is read by Eleanor Bron; the drawing is by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the poetess' brother and a founder of the pre-Raphaelite movement (one of my favourite schools of art). There is another video where the words appear on the screen rather than be read out loud, but the imagery is beautiful, and the person who put them together did a wonderful job, but I can't embed it due to the person's request. It can be viewed at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YRh2ebJYvs&NR=1.

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