As if the Opera were demolish’d.

She smiled on many, just for fun,—

I knew that there was nothing in it;

I was the first—the only one

Her heart had thought of for a minute.—

I knew it, for she told me so,

In phrase which was divinely moulded;

She wrote a charming hand,—and oh!

How sweetly all her notes were folded!

Our love was like most other loves;—