1. My tears betrayed my secret
So why deny when they confess?

2. Will denying help you
When my emaciation and frailty testify against you?

3. I hid my passion though it was infamous
Obvious to all yet I concealed it

4. I grieve for a life whose course
Was spent in loving you - if only regrets could restore it

5. And a passion I intended to guard
But the fickle one ruined it

6. I spent my youth seeking their love
So my successor was left destitute

7. And turned away from the words of slanderers
Which they said of me within earshot

8. And they denied me until it was as if
They never recognized my love or acknowledged it

9. Yet in their spite they still have
Affection nestled in my heart

10. Between them and me, though they shunned me
My resolve was forever cast away

11. O you who did me wrong when they are
Dearer to my heart than the eyes with which they looked

12. Did my estrangement make you think
That I was indifferent and nonchalant?