When I was one-and-twenty / A.E. Housman

XIII
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.