A. E. Housman’s “When I Was One-and-Twenty”
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When I was one-and-twenty
         I heard a wise man say,
"Give crowns and pounds and guineas
         But not your heart away;
Give pearls away and rubies
         But keep your fancy free."
But I was one-and-twenty,
         No use to talk to me.
        
When I was one-and-twenty
         I heard him say again,
"The heart out of the bosom
         Was never given in vain;
'Tis paid with sighs a plenty
         And sold for endless rue."
And I am two-and-twenty,
         And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.