Why do I o'er my paper once more bend?
⁠Ask not too closely, dearest one, I pray:
⁠For, to speak truth, I've nothing now to say;
Yet to thy hands at length 'twill come, dear friend.

Since I can come not with it, what I send
⁠My undivided heart shall now convey,
⁠With all its joys, hopes, pleasures, pains, to-day:
All this hath no beginning, hath no end.

Henceforward I may ne'er to thee confide
⁠How, far as thought, wish, fancy, will, can reach,
⁠⁠My faithful heart with thine is surely blended.
Thus stood I once enraptured by thy side,
⁠Gazed on thee, and said nought. What need of speech?
⁠⁠My very being itself was ended.