<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357674" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Loving But Leaving (A Sob Song for Conscientious Crooners)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When I led you to the altar<br>Vows were made, you'll call to mind<br>Darling wife. Now a defaulter<br>Must I seem if I'd be kind.<br>For you know how well I love you,<br>How I've sought work far and near;<br>But to keep a roof above you<br>I must now desert you, dear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Because I love you I must leave you,<br>Wife o' mine I cherish so;<br>Yet the parting should not grieve you<br>When the whole mad tale you know.<br>Well you know I don't deceive you.<br>Since the glad day we were wed<br>I have loved you; I must leave you<br>If I'd gain our daily bread.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You will pardon the pretending<br>When I figure in the courts,<br>Suits for maintenance defending,<br>While, with fierce, indignant snorts<br>The worthy Bench a bitter potion<br>Serves me with vile names that irk.<br>Yet you alone will know devotion<br>Moves me. For they'll give me work.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Because I love you I must leave you;<br>Joining the absconding band,<br>That, at last I may relieve you<br>By the labour of my hand.<br>If to keep you I seem laggard,<br>Then my country will be kind.<br>Sweetheart of a brutal blackguard,<br>Kiss me. I know you'll understand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clarence+Michael+James+Stanislaus+Dennis">Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357674" data-title="Loving But Leaving (A Sob Song for Conscientious Crooners) de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="When I led you to the altar Vows were made, you'll call to mind Darling wife. Now a defaulter Must I seem if I'd be kind. For you know how well I love you, How I've sought work far and near; But to keep a roof above you I must now desert you, dear..."></div> </div> </div>

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