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hen I was one-and-twenty] heard a wise man say,‘Give crowns and pounds and guineasBut not your heart away;Give pearls away and rubiesBut keep your fancy free.’But I was one-and-twenty,No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twentyI heard him say again,‘The heart out of the bosomWas never given in vain;"Tis paid with sighs a plentyAnd sold for endless rue.’And I am two-and-twenty,And oh, ’tis true, ’tis true. 26 A Shropshire Lad
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