StoryTitle("caps", "Return") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Absent from thee, I languish still; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Then ask me not, When I return? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The straying fool 'twill plainly kill ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To wish all day, all night to mourn. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Dear, from thine arms then let me fly, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That my fantastic mind may prove ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The torments it deserves to try, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That tears my fix'd heart from my love. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When, wearied with a world of woe, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To thy safe bosom I retire,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where love, and peace, and truth does flow, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "May I contented there expire! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lest, once more wandering from that heaven, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I fall on some base heart unblest; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Faithless to thee, false, unforgiven—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And lose my everlasting rest.", "") ?>
Poet("John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester", "1647–1680") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>