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OPEN! Edro! Or is it in Mordor's name?
REMEMBER: Rossetti’s gentle exhortation. Or does it concern a looking-glass?
D: Uttered in Lothlorien. ‘Tis a winding path.
EA! To do this or not is the question, thought Iluvatar.
R: I wonder, perplexed, at this urgency!
SILENCE! Pinter’s, Werenowska’s or Buffini’s? Whichever! Uttered by one at the Morannon.
REMEMBER
BY CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
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.
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A very famous sonnet, often read at funerals. I'm old enough to have been to quite a few funerals, and I've read it at at least 2.
Often incorrectly named 'Remember Me.'
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Last edited by Pervinca Took; 06-19-2019 at 04:11 PM.
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