Absence makes the heart grow fonder:
Isle of Beauty, fare thee well!

Isle of Beauty, st. 3, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "I find that absence still increases love", Charles Hopkins, To C. C.; "Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it", James Howell, Familiar Letters, book i. sect. i. No. 6, Semper in absentes felicior aestus amantes—"Woman’s heart is ever fonder towards an absent lover", Propertius, II, 33c (tr. G. P. Goold)