1. I thought that youth
Had passed, a gracious host, and gone away,

2. And fancied that my heart
Had found its guiding light and learned to pray.

3. Alas, this heart of mine
Was not content with love however fair.

4. O glance for which I never sought
Has smitten me with more than I can bear.

5. I knew not in these haunts
Lay secrets that ensnared me from behind,

6. Heart, you have conjured back my distant past
To overwhelm me – take now what is thine!

7. I thought that I had wept
Till grieving was forgot and grief was gone.

8. I deemed the fires that burnt my heart
Were slaked and cooled beneath my heartstrings wrung.

9. Where is my solace now,
My sleeplessness and anguish in the night?

10. It was the third night of the days
When wonders filled my eyes with strange delight.