Read here first:

The is about a man who is to meet his love on the riverbank by the old oak tree. Instead, he finds only her glove and a note.

Having read the note, he cries assuming she committed suicide by drowning herself in the river!

With his emotion running wild with shock, he says to himself: "the river is more deadly, than even the vainest knife".

Her note explains she had cheated on him but couldn't lie to him again! And she could: "no longer hurt him with this sin.

She couldn't lie and tell him: 'that guy was just a friend'."

He looks again into the river and sees his reflection in the water...with only his lonely face is looking back, and weeps!