The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing / Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

I perceive,

Because you do not wish that I should see

You smile at my simplicity. You smile

That I have not some more important thing

To ask about the holy hill of hills.

Is it so?

Must I meet those eyes again?

And now you cast them down, and check your smile.

How can I in those changeful features read