TESTO DEL LIED

"A thousand sev'ral ways I tried"
di anonimo

A thousand sev'ral ways I tried
To hide my passions from your view,
Conscious that I should be denied,
Because I cannot merit you.
Absence, the last and worst of all,
Did so increase my wretched pain,
That I return'd, rather to fall
By the swift fate of your disdain.