To Samuel D. Mayer Esq. of Jersey City
"The False-Hearted" (1858)
Song
Written & Composed by
John Rogers Thomas, 1830-1896
Author of "Oh Do Not Quite Forget", etc.

New York: William Hall & Son, 543 Broadway
Boston: Henry Tolman
New Orleans: P. P. Werlein & Co.
Louisville: D. P. Faulds & Co.
Plate No. 4237
Engraver: Clayton
[Source: @NYPL]

1. Oh, would that we had never met,
Oh, would that we had never lov'd!
Then I had never known regret
Nor she unfaithful proved;

[REFRAIN sung after each verse]
But now 'tis past and ne'er again
Shall love enthrall me with its chain,
'Tis past and I have lov'd in vain--
False-hearted one, farewell!
  'Tis past and I have lov'd in vain--
  False-hearted one, farewell!

2. So false and yet so fair to see,
Her dreamlike beauty haunts me yet,
And tho' she now be dead to me,
I cannot all forget;