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Remember me when I am gone away,
 Gone far away into the silent land;
 When you can no more hold me by the hand,
Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.
Remember me when no more day by day
     You tell me of our future that you plann'd:
         Only remember me; you understand
It will be late to counsel then or pray.
Yet if you should forget me for a while
         And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
         For if the darkness and corruption leave
         A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
Better by far you should forget and smile
         Than that you should remember and be sad.

Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 –1894), was an English writer born in London. She authored many romantic, devotional and children's poems, including "Goblin Market" and "Remember". She also wrote the words of two Christmas carols well known in Britain: "In the Bleak Midwinter" and "Love Came Down at Christmas",  She was a sister of the artist and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti II and features in several of his paintings.

Rosetti wrote "Remember" when she was 19 in 1849. It was first published in 1862 in her collection Goblin Market and Other Poems. This poem is in the public domain.

There's no tomorrow,
only today.
Yesterday is a memory,
for you've gone away.

I brought you home,
it was today.
A beautiful Urn,
I know not what to say,

except I hunger for you
and I always will.
I'll love you always,
I am your Jack; you are my Jill.

I just want to be useful, again.
No need for romance,
or a Spring dance.
I just want to be useful, again.

Third trip for a tattoo.
Two tattoos today,
my birthday sign and
a tiger shoulder display.

Met a lovely lady
and we conversed,
about her daughter's book,
all unrehearsed.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

rth's orbit around the Sun is not a circle, it's an ellipse. The point along its elliptical orbit where our fair planet is closest to the Sun is called perihelion. This year, perihelion was on January 2 at 01:00 UTC, with the Earth about 3 million miles closer to the Sun than it was at aphelion (last July 6), the farthest point in its elliptical orbit. Of course, distance from the Sun doesn't determine the seasons, and it doesn't the determine size of Sun halos. Easier to see with the Sun hidden behind a tall tree trunk, this beautiful ice halo forms a 22 degree-wide circle around the Sun, recorded while strolling through the countryside near Heroldstatt, Germany. The Sun halo's 22 degree angular diameter is determined by the six-sided geometry of water ice crystals drifting high in planet Earth's atmosphere.

Photo by Radoslav Zboran

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Here I sit, alone,
waiting for someone to show.
Wanting to be active, but
no particular place to go.

So, once again I
head down below
and thought of you,
but had no particular place to go.

She flew, as an Angel,
into the Sun.
I knew at that moment,
she was the one.

Long will I remember,
never to forget,
the moment in time,
when we first met.

Fly away,
flee,
away from the light,
stay here with me.

I can no longer,
ask of you,
what to be,
or what to do.

I miss you,
your beautiful smile,
but no longer will,
see. Not for a while.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Yesterday, the Moon was New. But on January 9, early morning risers around planet Earth were treated to the sight of an old Moon, low in the east as the sky grew bright before dawn. Above the city of Saarburg in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany, this simple snapshot found the waning Moon's sunlit crescent just before sunrise. But also never wandering far from the Sun in Earth's sky, inner planets Venus and Mercury shared the cold morning skyview. In the foreground are the historic city's tower and castle with ruins from the 10th century.

Photo by Michael Luy