Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Genevan philosopher
Day of Absence, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“England’s sun was slowly setting o’er the hill-tops far away,
Filling all the land with beauty at the close of one sad day;
And its last rays kissed the forehead of a man and maiden fair,—
He with footsteps slow and weary; she with sunny, floating hair;
He with bowed head, sad and thoughtful; she with lips so cold and white,
Struggled to keep back the murmur, “Curfew must not ring to-night.””
Curfew must not ring To-night (published 1870).
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To a Lily, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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"The Way of the World".
Variant: A youth would marry a maiden,
For fair and fond was she;
But their sires disputed about the Mass,
And so it might not be.
“A slow autumn rain:
The sad eyes of my mother
Fill a lonely night.”
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