And changed in due season were we,

For she wears the blackest of faces,

And I'm a D. C.

Unfailing the comfort she gave me

In the days when I owned to a heart,

When the charmers that used to enslave me

For Home or the Hills would depart.

She was Polly or Agnes or Kitty

(Whoever pro tem. was my flame),

And I found her most ready to pity,