Sometimes I need what only you can provide -- your absence.

Sometimes I need what only you can provide -- your absence.

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; every little absence is an age.

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; every little absence is an age.

The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.

The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.

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

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

Absence from whom we love is worse than death.

Absence from whom we love is worse than death.

'Presents,' I often say, 'endear absents.'

'Presents,' I often say, 'endear absents.'

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Sometimes I need what only you can provide - your absence.

Sometimes I need what only you can provide - your absence.

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

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