Because I Liked You Better

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Author
A.E Housman
Year
1936
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Because I liked you better


     Than suits a man to say,


It irked you, and I promised


     To throw the thought away.





To put the world between us


     We parted, stiff and dry;


'Good-bye', said you, 'forget me.'


     'I will, no fear', said I.





If here, where clover whitens


     The dead man's knoll, you pass,


And no tall flower to meet you


     Starts in the trefoiled grass,





Halt by the headstone naming


     The heart no longer stirred,


And say the lad that loved you


     Was one that kept his word.

 

Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf