The dream of love is over

Today we said goodbye

We parted not in anger

Though tears came in her eyes



Twas just as fate decreed dear

That we must never wed

Yet in her heart she loved me

She married wealth instead



One little word could change my future life

One little word could have made her my wife

Too late too late now my fondest hopes are dead

One little word that word was never said



In school days we had been sweethearts

She was her father's pride

Her folks lived in a mansion

Our cottage by its side



Though years have brought their changes

The same old love still holds

She wed to please her parents

A man of wealth and gold