And each one prayed her his bride to be;
Till she cried, “Ah, no, you must surely see,
If I don’t love one that I can’t love three.”
Three sad men, but they loved enough for ten,
And they sighed enough for twenty, these sad young men.[[1]]
Then these lovers three in the days gone by,
In their anguish did they languish, and they longed to die.[[2]]
Longed to die, till a year had passed or more,
And a fourth suitor came to the maiden’s door;
And he knelt so low on bended knee,