She feels her life is blighted.

And so when some one tells her if

She will jump off a handy cliff

’Twill cure her of her love and dumps—

She rushes out—ah! ah—she jumps!

Ah, reader, let us pause right here

To drop a tiny, briny tear;

Alas! Alack! Oh, woeful sight—

It cured her of her love, all right!

Fair maidens, heed this circumstance—