When the world has lost its charms.

“Still you will not know I’m speaking,

Though your blindness gives me pain;

Must I be forever seeking

For your notice, all in vain?

See, I softly press your pillow,

Softly touch your dewy lips,

Brush your bosom’s heaving billow,

Clasp your dainty finger tips.

“Once when midnight shadows thickened,