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Absence

Richard Jago

With 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!

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From The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250-1900 | Clarendon, 1919

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