When I Am Dead, My Dearest (4.05)
Susan Craig Winsberg
lyrics by Christina Rossetti (from her poem "Song")

When I am dead, my dearest,
sing no sad songs for me;
plant thou no roses at my head, nor shady cypress tree:
Be the green grass above me
with showers and dewdrops wet;
and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget.

I shall not see the shadows,
I shall not feel the rain;
I shall not hear the nightingale sing on, as if in pain;
And dreaming through the twilight
that doth not rise nor set,
haply I may remember, and haply may forget.

Susan McKeown - vocals
Susan Craig Winsberg - 19th-century wood flute
Michael Eagan -archlute
Stephanie Bennett - celtic harp
Denise Briesé - bass viol, great bass viol

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