Song Cycle by Henry Balfour Gardiner (1877-1950)

?. When I was one-and-twenty

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by Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936) , no title, from A Shropshire Lad, no. 13, published 1896

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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 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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