Then might I think thou lov'st indeed,

Then were the whole to thee confest.

Father, they will not take me home,

To the poor child no heart is free;

In sleet and snow all night I roam;

Father,—was this decreed by thee?

I will not try another door,

To seek what I have never found;

Now, till the very last is o'er,

Upon the earth I'll wander round.