The Green Pajamas

Song For Christina

This is for you Christina
Out in your world of blue
You didn't want me to sing it
I can't help what I do
I can't help what I do...

This is for you Christina
Now you're no longer blue
I only long to touch you
I can't help what I do
I can't help what I do...

_______________________
by Jeff Kelly
(c) 1993 St. Brigid Publishing


Dedicated to Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
and inspired by her poem entitled, "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. 

Christina Rossetti
Song (1862)