This Noble Youth So Lean and Wan

A late nineteenth-century acquaintance card with an illustration of a "noble youth, so lean and wan."

 

This noble youth, so lean and wan,

Was once as proud as any man;

His generous heart, so full of glee,

Is smashed--and full of misery.

 

He bought her candy, nuts, and clothes,

Took her to all the circus shows;

He suffers much, tell why, who can?

She ran away with another man.

Done