Through the world's baseness long since fled;

And deep from out your heart upspringing,

Love's downy wings will soar to view,

The darling smiles like magic bringing

Around your gloomy lips anew.

Come, rest: myself will here detain you,

So long as pulse of mine shall beat;

Nor shall my heart grow cold and pain you,

Till carried to your last retreat.

You gaze at me in doubting fashion,