It's the Lord's will, they say, and we must bow,

But O it's like a knife, it cuts so keen!

He'll work in's Sunday clothes, it'll be seen,

And then they'll laugh, and say "It isn't strange;

He slept with her, and so he couldn't change."

Perhaps,' she thought, 'I'm wrong; perhaps he's dead;

Killed himself like; folk do in love, they say.

He never tells what passes in his head,

And he's been looking late so old and grey.

A railway train has cut his head away,