When we two parted / In silence and tears / Half broken-hearted / To sever for years / Pale grew thy cheek and cold / Colder thy kiss,/ Truly that hour foretold / Sorrow to this.
The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing "about around and underneath" man, except man himself.
Maidens like moths are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.
Absence - that common cure of love.
For truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
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