Classic Poetry Aloud - When I was One-and-Twenty by AE Housman | Текст песни

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• When I was One-and-Twenty by AE Housman

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.

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