By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The speaker remembers thinking through relationships from puppy love onward and supposes the girls' understanding contributed to being left alone.
The final explanation is the speaker's inference, not testimony from the girls. The steady rows do not divide childhood and later reflection into separate stanzas.
The speaker asks 'Did she give a thought / to destany / when she meet me', recalls 'Even puppy love young', and ends 'I think that is why / I was left alone'.
A memory of early love that ends in loneliness; destany and meet are kept as typed.