An obscure old poem that I stumbled upon:
"Go to Father!" she said
When I asked her to wed,
And she knew that I knew
That her father was dead,
And she knew that I knew
What a life he had led,
So she knew that I knew
What she meant when she said,
"Go to Father!"
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This poem may never had surfaced again without your blog and is still little known
I learnt it from Mam60+years ago and, curiously, just looked for it to check the correct wording.
As I learnt it - it was "he" NOT "I" and "she knew that he knew the bad life he had led."
What is this from?!?! I found this in a letter from my great grandparents.....trying to understand why they sent it to me years ago..........
This poem was printed in one of our area newspapers years ago when I was a kid. I'm 81 now. But there's more to the poem/
T'was a long time ago, many years intervenes,
Since I courted a lass who was yet in her teens.
Go to father, she said, when I asked her to wed,
when she knew that I knew her father was dead,
but she knew that I knew what a life he had led.
So she knew that I knew what she meant when she said, go to father.
We parted in anger my heart filled with woe,
For that was a place I cared not to go.
But the answer she gave I remember quite well,
When I asked her to wed and she said, go to father.
Sondra K. Prine
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