What far too soon, alas! I learned--
The heart can bind itself alone,
And faith may oft be unreturned.
Self-swayed our feelings ebb and swell--
Thou lov'st no more;--Farewell! Farewell!
Farewell!--and thou, thou lonely heart,
Which never yet without remorse
Even for a moment didst depart
From thy remote and spherèd course
To haunt the place where passions reign--