• Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, - Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away.

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Days of absence, sad and dreary,
Clothed in sorrow's dark array, -
Days of absence, I am weary;
She I love is far away.
    "Day of Absence". Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition, 1919.