A young man loved a girl

A. Genser

A young man loved a girl

Who had chosen another man;

This other man loved yet another girl

And wed that one.

The first girl married out of spite

The first, best man

That happened into her path;

That young man is not well off.

It is an old story,

Yet it remains ever new;

And to he whom it has just happened,

It will break his heart in two.