With many a thousand kiss not yet content,
⁠At length with one kiss I was forced to go;
⁠After that bitter parting's depth of woe,
I deemed the shore from which my steps I bent,

Its hills, streams, dwellings, mountains, as I went,
⁠A pledge of joy, till daylight ceased to glow;
⁠Then on my sight did blissful visions glow;
In the dim-lighted, distant firmament.

And when at length the sea confined my gaze,
⁠My ardent longing filled my heart once more;
⁠⁠What I had lost unwillingly I sought.
Then Heaven appeared to shed its kindly rays;
⁠Methought that all I had possessed of yore
⁠⁠Remained still mine—that I was reft of nought.