Document:When I was one and twenty
| โ | ䷀This is the text of A. E. Housman's poem When I was one and twenty, in the Shavian alphabet. ䷁This is the text of A. E. Housman's poem When I was one and twenty, in the Shavian alphabet. |
- 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_n 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, โtis true, โtis true.
- -- A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad