A young man loved a girl
William Vincent Wallace
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.