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by Unknown

Oh, she filled my heart with joy, she emptied my heart of doubt,

And now, with a scratch of a pen, she lets my heart’s blood out!

Curse her! curse her! say I, she’ll some time rue this day;

She’ll some time learn that hate is a game that two can play;

And long before she dies she’ll grieve she ever was born,

And I’ll plow her grave with hate, and seed it down to scorn.

As sure as the world goes on, there’ll come a time when she

Will read the devilish heart of that han’somer man than me;

And there’ll be a time when he will find, as others do,

That she who is false to one, can be the same with two.