[nukkad] When I was one-and-twenty

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A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the 
temper of the sufferer. -Joseph Addison, essayist and poet (1672-1719)
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A Shropshire Lad.  1896. 
  

XIII. 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 a plenty  
  And sold for endless rue.’  
And I am two-and-twenty,         
  And oh, ’tis true, ’tis true. 
 
A. E. Housman (1859–1936).  
  
 



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