Forget me, Sweetest-heart, and nevermore

Turn to look back on what has gone before,

Or say, ‘Such love was brief, but wondrous fair;

The past is past for ever; have no care

Or thought for me at all, no tear or sigh,

Or faint regret; for, Dearest, I shall die

And dream of you i’ the dark, beneath the grass;

And o’er my head perchance your feet may pass,

Lulling me faster into sleep profound

Among the fairies of the fruitful ground.