A. E. Housman — When I Was One-and-Twenty

         XIII          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.