They Have Given Her To Another

They Have Given Her to Another
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They have given her to another,
They have broken every vow:
They have given her to another,
And my heart is lonely now
They remembered not our parting,
They remembered not our tears;
They have severed in an hour
All the tenderness of years

They have given her to another,
And he’s now his gentle bride:
Had I loved her as a brother
I could see her at his side
But I know with gold they won her
And her loving heart beguiled,
And her mother, too did scorn me,
When she knew I loved her child

They have given her to another,
And she loves him, too, they say:
If her memory does not clide her,
Then perhaps-perhaps she may
But I know that she has spoken
Words she never can forget
And, although my heart is broken,
I will love her love her yet