Alone so long I’ve borne this dreadful weight;

Such grief, at times it almost turned to hate.

O let me think you sit and listening long,

Comfort me still, and say I wasn’t wrong,

And pity me, and far, far hence again

Dismiss, if haply any yet remain,

Hard thoughts of me that in your heart have lain.

O love! to hear your voice I dare not go;

But let me trust that you will judge me so.

‘I think no sooner were you gone away,