Absence. Anonymous. II. Parting and Absence. Bliss Carman, et al., eds. 1904. The World's Best Poetry. III. Sorrow and Consolation

Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume III. Sorrow and Consolation. 1904.

II. Parting and Absence

Absence

Anonymous


WHEN I think on the happy days
I spent wi’ you, my dearie;
And now what lands between us lie,
How can I be but eerie!

How slow ye move, ye heavy hours,	5
As ye were wae and weary!
It was na sae ye glinted by
When I was wi’ my dearie.