When I Was One-and-Twenty
A.E.Housman
1859 to 1936
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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 away;
Give pearls away and rubies
But keep your free."
But I was one-and-twenty,
No use to to me.
When I was one-and-twenty
I heard him again,
"The heart out of the bosom
Was never in vain;
'Tis paid with sighs a-plenty
And sold endless rue."
And I am two-and-twenty,
And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.