His heart that beat alone for me, for me?

"Or shall it be when, in his belting arms,

Soul gazed on kindred soul,

And love had won the goal

Of his desire, and his were all my charms?

"No! no! not these! that hour he left me lost!

Stunned, fallen and despised

Before the world he prized,

When—God forgive me!—when I loved him most!"