Four Popular Songs (2)/I Beg You Would Not Mention Her

by Anonymous

I beg you would not mention her.

I beg you would not mention her
 it,s really quite absurd;
My ears are now for ever stunned
 with that confounded word,
Then do not tease and worry me
 and put me in a pet.
Though fate from her has set me free
 think not that I forget

You say that in some distant scene
 her charms now others see,
But were she at the antipodes
 she'd be too near to me
Tis true I may behold no more
 her one bright eye of jet
I do not see her gothic form
 yet how can I forget

For oh, there are a thousand things
 recall her still to me:
The roaring of the ruthless wind,
 The raging of the sea:
The misty cloud that dims the sky,
 when winter suns have set,
And all that we least love to see,
 forbid me to forget.

They te'l me she has money now
 and freely makes it fly;
They hint that she has lovers too.
 but that is all my eye
Tis nothing but a trick of theirs
 to catch me in the net;
But I have known her once good lord
 and never can forget,

 

FINIS.