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Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memoryโ€”
Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.

Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
Are heaped for the belovedโ€™s bed;
And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,
Love itself shall slumber on.
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       ---, Tess, Semicolon, rhiannon, RL Glassman and 30 others
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