ABSENCE

by: Richard Jago (1715-1781)

      ITH leaden foot Time creeps along
      While Delia is away:
      With her, nor plaintive was the song,
      Nor tedious was the day.
       
      Ah, envious Pow'r! reverse my doom;
      Now double thy career,
      Strain ev'ry nerve, stretch ev'ry plume,
      And rest them when she's here!

"Absence" is reprinted from The Oxford book of English Verse. Ed. Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch. Oxford: Clarendon, 1919.

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