You were once all mine

You were once all mine,

mine were your heart and soul.

Who turned you away from me?

The lure of a new love?

O beauty, O valor,

O admirable constancy,

where are you now?

You were once all mine,

but no longer, no longer,

alas! you're mine no longer.

To me alone you turned

your lovely smiling eyes,

for me alone you loosed

your golden hair to the wind.

O fleeting happiness,

O steadiness of heart,

where are you now?

You were once all mine

but no longer, no longer,

alas! you're mine no longer.

Pleasure on my face, alas!

you'll gaze upon no longer;

my song, my laugh

are changed to torture.

O scattered sighs,

O vanished pity,

where are you now?

You were once all mine

but no longer, no longer,

alas! you're mine no longer.