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Vergiss Mein Nicht

From ‘Selections from the Prose and Poetry of Alfred de Musset’

REMEMBER! when the morn with sweet affright

Opens her portals to the king of day;

Remember! when the melancholy night

All silver-veiled pursues her darkling way;

Or when thy pulses wake at pleasure’s tone:

When twilight shades to gentle dreams invite,

List to a voice which from the forest lone

Murmurs, Remember!

Remember! When inexorable fate

Hath parted finally my lot from thine,

When absence, grief, and time have laid their weight

With crushing power on this heart of mine,—

Think of my love, think of my last farewell;

Absence nor time can constancy abate:

While my heart beats, its every throb shall tell,

Remember!

Remember! When beneath the chilling ground

My weary heart has found a lasting sleep,

And when in after time, above the mound,

The pale blue flower its gentle watch doth keep,—

I shall not see thee more; but ever nigh,

Like sister true my soul will hover round:

List to a voice which through the night will sigh,

Remember!