In vain you tell your parting lover <br />You wish fair winds may waft him over <br />Alas! what winds can happy prove <br />That bear me far from what I love? <br />Alas! what dangers on the main <br />Can equal those that I sustain <br />From slighted vows and cold disdain? <br /> <br />Be gentle, and in pity choose <br />To wish the wildest tempests loose, <br />That thrown again upon the coast <br />Where first my shipwreck'd heart was lost, <br />I may once more repeat my pain, <br />Once more in dying notes complain <br />Of slighted vows and cold disdain.<br /><br />Matthew Prior<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-song-in-vain-you-tell-your-parting-lover/
