A help to music's mystery which mind fails

To fathom, its solution, no mere clue!

O reason's pedantry, life's rule prescribed!

I hopeless, I the loveless, hope and love.

Wiser and better, know me now, not when

You loved me as I was. Smile not! I have

Much yet to dawn on you, to gladden you.

No more of the past! I'll look within no more,

I have too trusted my own lawless wants,

Too trusted my vain self, vague intuition—