“Days of absence, sad and dreary,
Clothed in sorrow's dark array,—
Days of absence, I am weary:
She I love is far away.”
Day of Absence, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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She I love is far awa…" by Jean Jacques Rousseau?
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