Fun Facts:
1) This is one of five songs in a collection called "The Housman Songs" written by Lennox Berkley in 1940. 2) All of the songs in this collection are about separation.
"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."