In vain ye woo me to your harmless joys, <br />Ye pleasant bowers, remote from strife and noise; <br />Your shades, the witnesses of many a vow, <br />Breathed forth in happier days, are irksome now; <br />Denied that smile 'twas once my heaven to see, <br />Such scenes, such pleasures, are all past with me. <br /> <br />In vain he leaves me, I shall love him still; <br />And, though I mourn, not murmur at his will; <br />I have no cause—an object all divine, <br />Might well grow weary of a soul like mine; <br />Yet pity me, great God! forlorn, alone, <br />Heartless and hopeless, life and love all gone.<br /><br />William Cowper<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/love-faithful-in-the-absence-of-the-beloved/
