Young-adult fiction：week(8)

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• W.H.Auden〈When I was one –and –twenty〉

 

• 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 aplenty
  And sold for endless rue."
  And I am two-and-twenty
  And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.
  
  ── by A.E. Housman