Love's Ecstasy

(From the French of Tristan Klingsor.)

Love's Ecstasy will but a Moment Stay;
And this sweet rose that now is offered thee
By slender maiden hands will, in a day,
Have laid aside its silken gaiety;
Love's ecstasy will but a moment stay,
And only leaves a fading memory.

Love's ecstasy will but a moment stay;
Then cherish it to-day the more, my dear.
Send not your charming princes all away
In sorrow, with the glistening of a tear.
Love's ecstasy will but a moment stay,—
Love's grieving, too, I fear!

C.