"A SHROPSHIRE LAD."
When I was one-anri-twenty 1 hoard a wise man say. " Give crowns ami pounds ami guineas But not your heart away: Give pearls away and rubies. But keep you. fancy free." But I was one-uml-twenty, No use to talk to me When I was one-and-twenty I heard him <■««• again. " The heart out of the bosom Was never slven In tain; '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. HOTJSMAN.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12654, 7 September 1904, Page 3 (Supplement)
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