1896 

                           WHEN I WAS ONE-AND-TWENTY
                            (From A Shropshire Lad)

                            by Alfred Edward Housman







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{ONE_AND_TWENTY
      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 you fancy free.'
              But I was one-and-twenty,
              No use to talk to me.
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              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.
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