Then Sadie, on her mother's grave,
Prayed loud and long for God to save
Her soul from earthly wreck.
Then, with a palpitating heart,
With one fond look she did depart
To battle hard with broken heart;
While daughter and a second wife
Should all but ruin her young life.
But father did as fathers do,
When their list of wives have numbered two;
He lent his daughter a deaf ear,
For his second wife he then did fear.
His life was short; he soon became
A victim to a raging pain,
Which soon relieved him from this life
And bore him off from life's hard strife.
They laid him low beside his wife,
The pride and joy of Sadie's life;
But Sadie knew not of the fate
Her father had so sadly met.