I.

You that thus wear a modest countenance

With lids weigh’d down by the heart’s heaviness,

Whence come you, that among you every face

Appears the same, for its pale troubled glance?

Have you beheld my lady’s face, perchance,

Bow’d with the grief that Love makes full of grace?

Say now, “This thing is thus;” as my heart says,

Marking your grave and sorrowful advance.

And if indeed you come from where she sighs