1. A youth whose eyelids brimmed with love's desire,
Whose heart with it was filled, and seemed afire,

2. Sickness made pale his cheek; his heavy sighs
Proclaimed the tedious gloom that in him lies.

3. What happy soul with anguish finds its life,
And restless struggles in the net of strife?

4. Love smote his tortured breast with fierce distress,
Where passions raged like flames in his soul's recess.