Gershon Wolf Poet Epigram

Since 1844 and Counting

'Absence makes the heart grow fonder'
   once wrote an English poet

by name of Thomas Haynes Bayly
   who surely ought to know

For Tom's been absent since 1844 ~
   yet fonder of him I do not grow

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L Milton Hankins August 23, 2021 at 10:17 AM (chuckle!) I have heard that all my life and had not the faintest idea where it came from. I would have thought Shakespeare...after all, he said almost everything else!

David Kavanagh August 22, 2021 at 11:15 AM I think Gershon you may have slightly taken Toms proverb out of context, but you give us a good laugh in the process, cheers David Gershon Wolf August 22, 2021 at 11:24 AM Oh good, David! I'm only in this for the laughs, after all! Thanks a million! ~ gw