He longed to slip from my embrace.

His bosom heaves with discontent,

Deep as from hell the sigh is wrenched;

My heart with dark suspicion beats,

And all my happiness is quenched.

And if I ask of him the cause,

He says the cause in me is found;

That I am vain, the rover I,

And to another's bosom bound.

As if, since I have known his love,