What I Told You
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Title
What I Told You
Creator
"Yorick"
Source
http://addison.vt.edu/record=b1775388~S1
Publisher
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Date
May 1877
Contributor
Abbey Williams, Peter Royal
Rights
Permission to publish images from The Gray Jacket must be obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech.
Format
Text
Language
English
Type
Poem
Identifier
LD5655.V8 L4, ser.1, v.2, no.7 (May 1877), p.3
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Owing to a fit of carlessness[sic] on the part of one of our editors, whose thoughts must have been taken up by some passing damsel, only the last two verses of "What I Told You" were sent off to the printers in time for our last issue. We give the little poem in full in this number, and hope "Yorick" will make due allowance for an old friend whose mind is "muchly" scattered between books, papers, girls and finances.
I told you that I loved you
With a love that's warm and pure,
I told you that I loved you
With a love that would endure!
I told you that I'd love you,
Whatever might betide,
I told you that I loved you
More than all the world beside
I told you that this feeling,
This boyish, young emotion
Was as infinite and boundless
As the broad expanse of ocean!
I told you time would strengthen
This fervent love of mine;
From the darkness of the future
More brilliantly 'twould shine.
And now I swear by "Jago"
That I only care for THEE
And finish up my nonsense
With EGO AMO TE.
-YORICK.
I told you that I loved you
With a love that's warm and pure,
I told you that I loved you
With a love that would endure!
I told you that I'd love you,
Whatever might betide,
I told you that I loved you
More than all the world beside
I told you that this feeling,
This boyish, young emotion
Was as infinite and boundless
As the broad expanse of ocean!
I told you time would strengthen
This fervent love of mine;
From the darkness of the future
More brilliantly 'twould shine.
And now I swear by "Jago"
That I only care for THEE
And finish up my nonsense
With EGO AMO TE.
-YORICK.