"Sad and consumed by envious desire,

A Cinderella sits beside the fire:

The hearth grows cold, the ashes fly about,

There is no sunshine in the air without.

"Oh strange that friendship should so cruel prove

As to inflict a pang on yearning Love:

Pale and half-blind she weeps the long hours thro',

Yet are they children of one mother too!

"Love decks herself and proudly lifts her head;

More and more glows her cheek's soft rosy red: