Long ago I
loved a maiden
A sweet
blue-eyed maiden
Her name
was Celia Lee
I courted
this maiden
I married
this maiden
And we
lived happily
Then came
a time
My heart
grows cold
Those sad
days to retrace
Death
claimed my love
She’s now
above
While I
weep to see her face.
Thru green
fields we’d wander
On days
when the sun shone
And chase
the honeybee
I had
naught but leisure
And life
was a pleasure
Living
with Celia Lee
Written by Ida May Schaffer
Spring of 1921
Age of 15