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Position:Home>Arts & Humanities> When I was one and thirty.....? HELP?Question: When I was one and thirty.....? HELP?I can't find this poem. I heard it when I was younger, and loved the rhythm of it. Unfortunately, only one line seems to have stuck-- Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: A. E. Housman's "When I Was One and Twenty" http://www.bartleby.com/123/13.html... A. E. Housman (1859–1936). 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. |