FRIEND of my heart when you’re away I fashion for my tongue,
A thousand things to say to you
But dear heart when you come,
How needless is my well formed phrase,
And my care chosen words,
Take swift and sudden flight away,
Like small wind-riven birds.
And with you here, my full glad heart
Can only say, you’ve come.
For all your , pleading ways
But serve to make me dumb.