Since so long...

SINCE SO LONG…

Since so long with one another We could neither speak nor meet, O meseems we have forgotten How much we have loved, my sweet.

Now I see thee pale before me, And thy wounded heart I feel, As in former days, O let me At thy feet here humbly kneel.

Let me weep for pity; fondly Let those little hands be kissed; What did you so long, my dearest Hands, which many weeks I missed?