Their foolish speech? I cannot bring to mind

One half of it, beside; and do not care

For old Natalia now, nor any of them.

Oh, you—what are you?—if I do not try

To say the words Natalia made me learn,

To please your friends,—it is to keep myself

Where your voice lifted me, by letting that

Proceed: but can it? Even you, perhaps,

Cannot take up, now you have once let fall,

The music's life, and me along with that—