New Love

You left me there to my sorrow,

Standing in silence, alone.

You did not thiñk that the parting

Would turn my heart to stone.

But my heart now gleams more brightly,

Because you were so cruel.

The blade of infidelity

Has cut it to a jewel.

And do not plead contritely

Forgiveness and forgetting,

For my love is burning a fiercer flame

In a far more lovely setting.