No pen can e'er depict on paper;

My waltz embraced that taper waist,

Till I am wasted like a taper.

Worthy the brightest hours of Greece

Was that pure fire, or so I felt it;

Its feeder towered in steadfast peace,

While I believed for me it melted.

No use in heighos! or alacks!

My cure is past the power of money;

Too sure that form of virgin wax