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Is not absence death to those who love?
Is not absence death to those who love?
Sometimes I need what only you can provide - your absence.
Sometimes I need what only you can provide - your absence.
 What shall I do with all the days and hours
 That must be counted ere I see thy face?
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 What shall I do with all the days and hours
 That must be counted ere I see thy face?
  How shall I charm the interval that lowers
   Between this time and that sweet time of grace? 
 For with G.D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to 
speak it profanely) to be present read more 
 For with G.D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to 
speak it profanely) to be present with the Lord. 
 Days of absence, sad and dreary,
 Clothed in sorrow's dark array,--
  Days of absence, I am weary;
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 Days of absence, sad and dreary,
 Clothed in sorrow's dark array,--
  Days of absence, I am weary;
   She I love is far away. 
 Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, 
one provision is conspicuous by its presence and read more 
 Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, 
one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another by its 
absence. 
Absence is to love what wind is to a fire; it puts out the little, it kindles the great.
Absence is to love what wind is to a fire; it puts out the little, it kindles the great.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder, Isle of Beauty, Fare thee well!
Absence makes the heart grow fonder, Isle of Beauty, Fare thee well!
I dote on his very absence, and I wish them a fair departure.
I dote on his very absence, and I wish them a fair departure.