oh how blessed i felt , as her love for me by her tongue was spelt , a long time i spent sharing her sweet affections , with her i would grow old was my prayer and prediction , but then fortune dealt us a cruel fate , amidst us a schism it create , i , a young boy , went away to pursue my education , and she being a girl , for being a girl was her only fault , had her dreams suffer a truncation , mathematics she wanted to study , to paint the whole world with her equations , but her family deemed it to be above her station , never saw her again i , for on returning i learned with a sad sigh , that riots had broken out in our town while i was gone , driving her woebegone christian family away towards the north , and in north i have searched for her since , on occasions with a smile , on occasions with a wince , and here is a photograph of her now i show to you , hoping you would be able to assist this hapless search with some sort of a clue .