And there I gave my heart to him
Whose love was bliss to me.
But now sad news had come from home,
That one I loved was dead,
And, weeping sorely, on the couch
I bowed my mournful head.
“Don’t cry, my Mother!” soft and sad,
My little darling said;
But, ah! I only wept the more—
His cousin Charles[8] was dead!