Absence makes the heart grow fonder

Absence makes the heart grow fonder. This line occurs in Thomas Haynes Bayly's song "isle of Beauty." There is proverbial authority for this as well as for the contrary statement that absence kills love. But written literature is usually on Bayly's side. Charles Hopkins in his lines "To C. C." says,

I find that absence still increases love.

Handy-Book of Literary Curiosities
By William S. Walsh
Philadelphia
J. B. Lippincott Company
1904

Rutgers University Libraries
PN43.W228H

Omnipædia Polyglotta
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