Sad sorrow’s tender tears were mine,
since my poor heart she did entwine.
Her loving looks and sweetest smiles
breathed beauty; that\'s how she beguiles!
Yet Sophocles said long ago:
\"it\'s wiser just to let love go,\"
but he’d not known her loving glance,
her eyes that tantalize with trance.
He said: \"love tempts a traitor’s touch,
betrays and tricks to love too much,
then casts aside upon the sands.\"
Where Sophocles so smugly stands,
but sorrow’s tears that I have wept,
I\'m glad, from Sophocles, were kept!