WEDDED TO ANOTHER.
She is wedded to another now Who once was pledged to me,And what I fondly pictured once I know can never be.Yet still I love to think upon The bright and glorious past,And breathe a sigh, e'er withered hopes Too purely sweet to last.
They say 'tis madness to recall The love of early youth—'T is folly now to kneel before That broken idol, truth.Yet still the old, sweet dream of joy About my memory clings,And to my heart a trembling wail Of saddest music brings.
Back through the mist of buried years Its tones are lingering yet
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