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voyage to try to forget her--but in vain.

MY BONNIE LITTLE GIRL, 4a3b4c3b, 4: Courting her too slow, the singer
finds his sweetheart has fled with another man.

LOVELY NANCY, ii, 4aabb, 5ca: A bachelor's warning against "courting too
slow": Sweet William goes on a voyage; meanwhile Nancy, his sweetheart,
writes him of her marriage to another. William dies of grief and Nancy,
of remorse.

I'M SCORNED FOR BEING POOR (VAIN GIRL), 3abcb, 8: A lover's farewell to
his sweetheart, who has forsaken him to be married to a wealthy stranger
from New England.

LITTLE NELLIE, 4a3b4c3b, 8: She forsakes her lover, the singer, to marry
wicked, wealthy Mr. Brown, who is a drunkard--and dies of a broken
heart.

THE SQUIRE, 2abcb, 10: The wealthy young squire, being rejected in love
by pretty Sally, vows to dance on her grave when she dies.

LITTLE SPARROW (A REGRET), ii, 4abcb, 5ca: A complaint of a love-lorn
maiden warning her kind against the faithlessness of all men.

THE AWFUL WEDDING, 4abcb, 7: At the marriage feast each guest is asked
for a song. The bride's former lover sings his unchanging affection for
her. She swoons and spends the night in her mother's bed, where she is
found dead the next morning.

THE YOUNG MAN'S LOVE, 2aa, 9: The singer one evening overhears a young
man lamenting the faithlessness of his sweetheart, who scorns him for
his poverty.

[MAGGIE], 3a3b4c3b and 2abab (approximately), 7: A story of Maggie, the
constant wife, who seeks in bar-room and dry-goods store her faithless
husband, who has eloped with Lula Fry. Failing to find him, she wanders
to the cemetery, and thence to the railroad trestle, where she is killed
by train No. Four.

JOE HARDY, 4a3b4c3b, 6: A maiden's explanation to her jilted lover that
when she plighted her troth in Bangor, she had not then met Joe Hardy,
whom she now adores.

3. SONGS OF LOVE THWARTED.

LOVELY JULIA, iv, 4abcb, 9ca: Crossed in love by her parents, she leaves
the city, goes upon a mountain, and plunges a dagger into her breast.
Her lover finds her and in like manner dies with her.

JOHNNY DOYLE, 2aa, 14ca: A maiden, who loves Johnny, is forced by her
parents to prepare to marry Samuel Moore. Just as the priest enters, her
earrings fall to the floor and her stay-laces burst. She is carried home
fatally ill. The mother now proposes to send for Johnny Doyle, but it is
too late--she is dead.

ANNIE WILLOW, iii, 4a3b4c3b, 8: Her lover dreams of her and go