"Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad."
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Remember, l. 13-14.
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Christina Rossetti
Christina Georgina Rossetti (December 5, 1830 – December 29, 1894) was an English poet and the sister of artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
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