Absence! is not the soul torn by it From more than light, o… - Thomas Campbell

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Absence! is not the soul torn by it From more than light, or life, or breath? 'Tis Lethe's gloom, but not its quiet,— The pain without the peace of death!

Thomas Campbell

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Thomas Campbell (July 27, 1777 – June 15, 1844) was a Scottish poet, who served as Lord Rector of Glasgow University (1826–1829).

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Also Known As: Bard of Hope

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Our bugles sang truce, for the night-cloud had lower'd,
And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky;
And thousands had sunk on the ground overpower'd,
The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die.

Hope, for a season, bade the world farewell,
And Freedom shrieked—as Kosciusko fell!

A stoic of the woods—a man without a tear.

Absence! is not the soul torn by it From more than light, or life, or breath? 'Tis Lethe's gloom, but not its quiet,— The pain without the peace of d… - Thomas Campbell

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