Remember Me - Queen Henrietta To Charles 1 -
Good cheer, my love, as we venture forth
Over land and sea without recourse
Banished to rove us we three
No matter the tempest, remember me
As I was in our former life
In love promoting,you formed your wife
No trickery connived to gain my trust
In wooing me you contained your lust
To ensure my purity on wedding day
No act to spare me as together we lay
Now bitter tidings have blown us around
Emerging battle scarred with lopsided crown
In my aching heart I know it to be true
In constancy our lives shall arise anew
Exiled I must depart to foreign shore
For asylum aid I had to implore
No coinage purse to tie about
my velvet kirtle I can do without
Remember me and your luckless child
As he clings to me knowing you are defiled
My last note written in heart rung pain
Shall I ever find you well again
Confined as you are in London Tower
As friends gather to plot your salvation hour
Keep alive your love for goodness sake
A promised recompense I trust to make
The ship's last call to board has come
With heavy heart I see baggage heaved on
Keepsake I send thee, in this note I kiss
A beribboned silver piece I threaded this
Etched in memory to my only true one
Remember me when all deeds are done.
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