1. My yearning burns to tell him of a love
That ravaged my heart and brought no healing balm

2. I cry again and again for your far absence
Yet what avails my constant cry and sighing?

3. At evening whom have I but flowing tears?
Tears from the eyes bring solace to the hopeless heart

4. No bird whose wings time clipped in evil hour
Robs of his mate and wonted nesting-place

5. But mourns among the boughs his bitter fate
With saddest plaining notes and murmurings faint

6. Remember Zughba 'mid sweet Bowers of Ban
What time misfortunes on her fainting fell

7. She turned away, of thee still treasuring still
Had all her store been weighed 'gainst what she bore,