Undress’d at evening, when she found

Their odors lost, their colors past,

She changed her look, and on the ground

Her garland and her eye she cast.

That eye dropp’d sense distinct and clear,

As any Muse’s tongue could speak,

When from its lid a pearly tear

Ran trickling down her beauteous cheek.

Dissembling what I knew too well,

“My love, my life,” said I, “explain