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Had I known that you were going / I would have given you messages for her, / Now two years dead, / Whom I shall always love.
As it is, should she entreat you how it goes with me, / You must reply: as well as with most, you fancy;
That I love easily, and pass the time.
And she will not know how all day long between / My life and me her shadow intervenes, / A young thin girl, / Wearing a white skirt and a purple sweater / And a narrow pale blue ribbon about her hair.
I used to say to her, "I love you / Because your face is such a pretty colour, / No other reason."
But it was not true.
Oh, had I only known that you were going, / I could have given you messages for her!