Poem by Alfred Edward Housman

Additional Poems. 7. He would not Stay for Me, and who Can Wonder?

He would not stay for me, and who can wonder?
  He would not stay for me to stand and gaze.
I shook his hand, and tore my heart in sunder,
  And went with half my life about my ways.

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