Me he has left; already may have seen

One, who for me forgotten here has been;

And he, the while is balancing between.

If the heart spoke, the heart I knew were bound;

What if it utter an uncertain sound?’

‘So quick to vary, so rejoiced to change,

From this to that his feelings surely range;

His fancies wander, and his thoughts as well;

And if the heart be constant, who can tell?

Far off to fly, to abandon me, and go,