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ABSENCE by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

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First Line: HERE, EVER SINCE YOU WENT ABROAD
Last Line: AND TEARS ARE LONGER ERE THEY DRY.
Subject(s): ABSENCE; SEPARATION; ISOLATION;
HERE, ever since you went abroad,
If there be change no change I see:
I only walk our wonted road,
The road is only walk'd by me.

Yes; I forgot; a change there is --
Was it of that you bade me tell?
I catch at times, at times I miss
The sight, the tone, I know so well.

Only two months since you stood here?
Two shortest months? Then tell me why
Voices are harsher than they were,
And tears are longer ere they dry.



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