Though you be absent here, I needs must say
The trees as beauteous are, and flowers as gay,
As ever they were wont to be.
Source: The Spring
-- Abraham Cowley, ( 1618-1667), English poet, essayist; His works include Poetical Blossoms, 1633, Love's Riddle, 1638 and The Guardian (aka: The Cutter Of Coleman Street).