The pang, the agony, the doubt,

Which rends my heart with ceaseless sigh,

While day and night roll darkling by.

Without one friend to bear my woe,

I faint, I die, beneath the blow;

That Love had arrows well I knew;

Alas! I find them poisoned, too.

Birds yet in freedom shun the net

Which Love around your haunts hath set;

Or, circled by his fatal fire,