The seduction

She was as beautiful as an angel in heaven

and as innocent as a budding flower

When the cruel one aroused

the first stirrings of love in her heart.

Inexperienced and trusting,

she was seduced and betrayed

And pleaded in vain

for a wedding ring.

Doomed to shame and scorn,

she groaned for nine months

Then consumed by grief,

she begged pardon for her disloyal lover and died.

The fruit of the vile betrayal

was laid in the grave soon after

But there no cross or cypress stood,

no stone bearing her name.