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 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
By the river bank I’ll loiter
Until I see your face once more
Then I’ll plunge beneath the cold water
And I’ll land on some far shore
Down among the trees and the bushes
Where the dark green willows wave
In the cold and silent rushes
There you’ll find my lonely grave
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
Oh, I wish I was white marble
Cold and white on some far shore
Then this poor heart would cease from troubling
And I’d feel this pain no more
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
Oh, I love you, dear, I love you
More than all this world I know
I have proved to thee false-hearted
I must now forever go