The 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