StoryTitle("caps", "Absence") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With leaden foot Time creeps along ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "While Delia is away: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With her, nor plaintive was the song, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Nor tedious was the day. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ah, envious Pow'r! reverse my doom; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Now double thy career, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Strain ev'ry nerve, stretch ev'ry plume, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And rest them when she's here!", "") ?>
Poet("Richard Jago", "1715–1781") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>