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Chapter 65: ABSENCE
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A varied collection of lyric and narrative verse that moves between short songs, sonnets, rondels, and longer meditative pieces. Many poems use pastoral and seasonal imagery to celebrate fields, harvest, and the sensory life of the natural world while also acknowledging the hardships and dignity of rural labor. Recurring themes include love, absence, memory, and spiritual longing, treated with formal variety and musical language. The tone alternates between celebratory, elegiac, and reflective, blending vivid description with moral and emotional observation.

ABSENCE

O darling—
“My darling!”
And this is all you say?
And what are words of love and cheer
When one is far away?
O darling—
“My darling!”
A word is more than none
And if you say what I would hear
You’ll fill the world with sun
O darling—
“My darling!”