Sonnetsday 28

XXXIX. F the dull substance of my flesh were thought,      Injurious distance should not stop my way;   For then despite of space I would be brought, From limits far remote where thou dost stay. No matter then although my foot did stand Upon the farthest earth removed from thee; For nimble thought can jump both sea and land As soon as think the place where he would be. But ah! thought kills me that I am not thought, To leap large lengths of miles when thou art gone, But that so much of earth and water wrought I must attend time's leisure with my moan,       Receiving nought by elements so slow       But heavy tears, badges of either's woe. W.S.