Since Man with that inconstancy was born, To love the absent, and the present scorn. Why do we deck, why do we dress For such a short-liv'd happiness?
The L watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.
Les absents ont toujours tort. The absent are always in the wrong.
If to be absent were to be Away from thee; Or that when I am gone, You or I were alone; Then my Lucasta might I crave Pity from blust'ring wind, or swallowing wave.
En toi je vis, o u' que tu sois absente; En moi je meurs, o u' que je sois pre sent. Tant loin sois-tu, toujours tu es pre sente; Pour pre' s que sois, encore suis-je absent. I live in you, wherever you are, when you are absent; I die in myself wherever I am. No matter how faraway you are, you are always present; And no matter how near you are, I am always absent.
I would like to be there, were it but to see how the cat Scottish Metrical Psalms jumps.Oneknowsnothingoftheworld,if youareabsent from it so long as I have been.
To thinkofone's absent love is verysweet; but it becomes monotonous I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.
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