Let me depart, since ye are happy here.

PUELLÆ

Forget the false forgetter and be wise,

And 'mid these clinging hands and loving eyes,

Dream, not in vain, thou knowest paradise.

Abide! abide! for we are happy here.

AMANS

Ah! with your sweet eyes shorten not the day,

Nor let your gentle hands my journey stay!

Perchance love is not wholly cast away.