So sweet, so sweet a Soul as she;

Who ever gains so great a Prize,

Has all, has all that Heav'n can be.

Curse on my Fate, who plac'd me here,

In a Sphere, a Sphere, so much below,

My Love, my Life, my all that's dear;

And yet she must not know:

The torment for her I sustain,

Shall ill, shall ill rewarded be;

When loving, when loving, and not Lov'd again,