Current Events > This poem is beautiful (written by an 18-year-old girl who was murdered)

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This was featured on Unsolved Mysteries, felt I had to share:

"Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land;
When you can no more hold me by the hand
Yet if you should forget me for a while
And afterward remember, do not grieve
For if the darkness and corruption leave
A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
Better by far that you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad"

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She didn't write that. A victorian era woman did and she lived to 64

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Dreamscissors posted...

She didn't write that. A victorian era woman did and she lived to 64

Looks like you're right. I misheard Stack. Apparently she had recited that poem for her family, so they inscribed it on her tombstone.

Either way, still a nice poem.