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    Just one year ago today, love, I became your happy bride,
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    changed a mansion for a cottage to dwell by the river side.
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    You told me I'd be happy, but no happiness I see,
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    for tonight I am a widow in a cottage by the sea.

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All alone by the seaside he left me, and no other's bride I'll be,
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for in bridal flowers he begged me in the cottage by the sea.

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    From my cottage by the seaside I can see my mansion home,
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    I can see those hills and valleys where with pleasure I have roamed.
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    The last time that I saw him, oh how happy then were we,
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    but tonight I am a widow in the cottage by the sea.

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All alone by the seaside he left me, and no other's bride I'll be,
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for in bridal flowers he begged me in the cottage by the sea.

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All alone by the seaside he left me, and no other's bride I'll be,
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for in bridal flowers he begged me in the cottage by the sea.