Ye souls of more delicate kind,

Who feast not on pleasure alone,

Who wear the soft sense of the mind,

To the sons of the world are unknown:

Ye know, tho’ I cannot express,

Why I foolishly dote on my pain;

Nor will ye believe it the less

That I have not the skill to complain.

I lean on my hand with a sigh,

My friends the soft sadness condemn,