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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO ONE WHO NEVER KNEW I CARED, by ELSIE THOMAS CULVER
First Line: I wonder what it was that made me say
Last Line: And hear you chafe about my woman's club!
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Relationships; Youth
First Line: I wonder what it was that made me say
Last Line: And hear you chafe about my woman's club!
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Relationships; Youth
I wonder what it was that made me say
"Good-by," and leave you, dear, that fateful day.
How could I stay away, nor even write,
Loving you all the while the way I did?
Instinct, perhaps. I was too young to know
That only if I left you so, I'd keep
The you that I had known, beside me, dear,
Glorious and beautiful, through all these lengthening years.
Instinct, my husband says, guides womenfolk,
Where sense and reason, masculine 'tributes, fail.
I couldn't bear to know you fat and bald,
And hear you chafe about my woman's club!
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