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Your absence has gone through me

William Stanley Merwin, “Separation”

How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1857). “The Works of Charles Lamb: Complete in One Volume. With a Sketch of His Life, by Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, D.C.L.”, p.608

Nor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.656, Delphi Classics

I should not proceed by land to the East, as is customary, but by a Westerly route, in which direction we have hitherto no certain evidence that any one has gone.

Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas (1827). “Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain”, p.10