1. I was so intent on you that I imagined,
Nay, I was certain none but you was sought.

2. Yet when you turned from me, it tried another,
And wandered lost, as though God made none else.

3. If you reflect how I depart a failure,
And your betrayal - say, which gained the less?

4. I earned reproach, but knowledge was my profit
In your command - so tell me, which won more?

5. I'll thank time's sin in you, who would have thought
I'd thank days for a crime? Yet now I do.