Oft have I sigh'd

John Theodore Livingston Raynor

Oft have I sigh'd for him that hears me not:

Who absent hath both love and me forgot.

O yet I languish still, through his delay.

Days seem as years, when wish'd friends break their day.

Had he but lov'd as common lovers use,

His faithless stay some kindness would excuse:

O yet I languish still, still constand mourn

For him that can break vows, but not return.