When out of sight are out of mind.

I blame it not; I think that when

The cold and silent meet again,

Kind hearts will yet as erst be kind,

’Twas ‘out of sight,’ was ‘out of mind.’

I knew it when we parted, well,

I knew it, but was loth to tell;

I felt before, what now I find,

That ‘out of sight’ is ‘out of mind.’

That friends, however friends they were,