Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

For I verily, absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed, . . .

Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.

Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee, Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.

Achilles absent, was Achilles still.

In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.

Ever absent, ever near, Still I see thee, still I hear, Yet I cannot reach thee, dear!

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?

But when he shall have been taken from sight, he quickly goes also out of mind.

Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.

For with G.D., to be absent from the body is sometimes to be present with the Lord.

Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.

Oft in the tranquil hour of night, When stars illume the sky, I gaze upon each orb of light, And wish that thou wert by.

Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream. And I seek then in vain by the meadow and stream.

For there's nae luck about the house, There's nae luck at aw, There's little pleasure in the house When our gudeman's awa. William Julius Mickle,

With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence o'er and o'er again Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain, And memory, like a drop that, night and day, Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away!

Condemned whole years in absence to deplore, And image charms he must behold no more.

Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.

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 which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another by its absence.