Twas she who sigh’d convulsively;
For Selim starts that very day
His vows at Mecca’s shrine to pay.
III.
It must be so—for all must part;
There lives no man, whose youthful heart
Has never ached when he has heard,
Farewell—farewell—that saddening word!
Unless the heart is cased in steel,
This is a pang that all must feel.