Lover's Farewell

We have met and we have parted

We have spoke our last goodbye

You have proved to me false hearted

You may now forever go



You have wrecked the heart I've cherished

You have done me day by day

You are false but I'll forgive you

To forget you I cannot say



For I love you dear I love you

More than all this world I know

You have proved to me false hearted

You may now forever go



On the river bank I'll loiter

Till I see your face once more

Then I'll plunge beneath the water

And I'll land on some far shore



Among the trees and bushes

Where the dark green willow sway

In the cold and silent rushes

There you'll find my lonely grave



O I wish I was white marble

Cold and white on some far shore

This poor heart would cease from troubling

And I'd feel the pain no more