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The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900

RICHARD JAGO

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1715-1781

452.

Absence

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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