A sister’s quiet love

Stirs my heart for thee,

Ask me for none other,

For it paineth me.

Schiller’s Ballads.

I can but listen to thy words in sorrow⁠—

Words that are poured from a full, bursting heart.

Thou couldst not thus the form of passion borrow;

I know thou dost not act a studied part.

For even now thine eyes, so true and earnest,