Moments of delightful madness

Gone, alas, for evermore!

TOO LATE.

(PEINE D'AMOUR.)

(AFTER ARMAND SILVESTRE.)

When your hand was laid upon mine

'Twas in painful dread that I grasped it,

For some hesitation malign,

Made tremble the fingers that clasped it.

When you turned your forehead so near,