After Christina Rossetti


Read me a poem

sing me a song

daylight is fading

soon I'll be gone-


give me your tender smile

come, hold my cold hand tight

look fondly at my eyes

let's forget the indifferent night-



joys we've heartily shared

time has taken such swift flight

but you'll forever stay in my memory

and your beauty will always appear in my sight-


hush, oh hush, my beloved, my very life

from the distant hills an echo I hear:

'the heart that truly loves knows no forgetting'

I might be faraway but you'll find always I'm so very near


Sunday, 25th August 2024, 5,45 pm Melbourne time