He Did Not Know Me

(Woman's Sorrow Song)

He said: "I do not know you;
You are not she who came
And made my heart grow tame?"
        I laughed: "The same!"

      Still said he: "I don't know you."
      "But I am your Love!" laughed I:
"Yours—faithful ever—till I die,
               And pulseless lie!"

      Yet he said: "I don't know you."
      Freakful, I went away,
And met pale Time, with "Pray,
               What means his Nay?"

      Said Time:" He does not know you
      In your mask of Comedy."
"But," said I, "that I have chosen to be:
               Tragedy he."

      "True; hence he did not know you."
      "But him I could recognize?"
"Yea.     Tragedy is true guise,
               Comedy lies."