YOUR troubles shrink not, though I feel them less
Here, far away, than when I tarried near;
I even smile old smiles--with listlessness--
Yet smiles they are, not ghastly mockeries mere.
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........incredible poem....distance seems to have that effect ★
YOUR troubles shrink not, though I feel them less Here, far away, than when I tarried near; I even smile old smiles- with listlessness- Yet smiles they are, not ghastly mockeries mere.