Reflection on Absence



  Thus absence dies, and dying proves
No absence can consist with loves
That do partake of fair perfection:
    Since in the darkest night they may
    By their quick motion find a way
To see each other by reflection.

  The waving sea can with such flood
Bathe some high palace that hath stood
Far from the main up in the river:
    Oh think not then but love can do
    As much, for that's an ocean too,
That flows not every day, but ever.

-Owen Felltham,
When, Dearest, I But Think on Thee, 1659





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