Absence by John Arthur Blaikie. Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. 1895. A Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895

Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895.

Absence

John Arthur Blaikie (b. 185–)


IF not now soft airs may blow
From thy haven unto me,
If not now last Autumn’s glow
Thrill delight ’twixt me and thee,
Call up Memory, oh, entreat her,	5
In the present there ’s none sweeter.

One true thought and constant only
To that pleasurable time
Me sufficeth to make lonely
All the void and mocking prime	10
Of this summertide, whose story
Pales in that exceeding glory.