Why Does She So Long Delay?
By Paul, the Silentiary
Why does she so long delay?
Night is waning fast away;
Thrice have I my lamp renewed,
Watching here in solitude,
Where can she so long delay?
Where, so long delay?
Vainly now have two lamps shone;
See the third is nearly gone:
Oh that Love would, like the ray
Of that weary lamp, decay!
But no, alas, it burns still on,
Still, still, burns on.
Gods, how oft the traitress dear
Swore, by Venus, she’d be here!
But to one so false as she
What is man or deity?
Neither doth this proud one fear,—
No, neither doth she fear.