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By Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

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CXXXVIII

[I shall forget you, O my dead]

I shall forget you, O my dead,
I shall forget you!
You will not care.
Less visible than air,
You are where no forgetfulness may fret you.
But I, how shall I bear
Visible earth, my dead, when I forget you?