Remember and tell me, the day you lovenBehind a veil of tearsnHow dreams as these you dreamt not ofnAnd thought to pass your yearsnMore peaceably than others donDevoid of common painnYour own company pleased younAnd as you heard complainnOf those small hurts that never healnAnd scar their victims deepnYou oft’ proclaimed your heart could feelnNo love and sought to keepnYour perfect brow untarnished bynThe sorrow you would savenYour perfect lips unvarnished lienTo kiss might thee enslavenProtected are thy limbs. No fearnOf deeds unseemly grasp theenDirected by thy perfect earnNo words could hope to clasp theenIndeed thou will not be enshrinednWill honor no man’s namenBut in disdain you are, you’ll findnEnshrined all the samenIn your defense, you say not sonWhen standeth thee accusednOf hatred for mankind, but O nHow hast thou been abusednThat such a mortal fear could frightennAll your nature willsnSo much so that what might enlightennPassion, pity killsnAnd cannot bear to look uponnA soul you have enrapturednWith cruel haste you bid begonenThe fools you have encapturednMistake me not. It is unjustnFor every lovestruck squirenTo claim a heart he hasn’t wonnBut what of your desire?nCan’st thou pretend within thy breastnA beat was ne’er misplacednAnd lost somewhere? nDost thou but jestnTo say thou never tracednWith trembling fingertips the imagenOf a foreign shorenEmbarking on a pilgrimagenTo where none touched before?nThe most deluded eyes could seenThou harbor’st in thy framenA store more rich than most should beIn every sense’s flamenThat thou dost feel I know it wellnThat thou dost weep I’ll swearnThat thou dost love I’ll live to tellnIf thou would only darenRemember and tell me, the daynYou love beyond all thisnWhat truth within my counsel laynAnd thank me with a kiss.