La Scillitana - The
Maiden of Scilla (English
translation)
(Italian
original)
(German translation)
I've seen a tiger roaming the gloomy
forest,
And there I needed only my tears to tame it.
I've seen how dropping water has fall'n with no rest,
Long on the hardest marble, and overcame it.
Yet you deride my sorrow when 't is sorest,
Tho' 't is your charms my heart owns, and so inflame