"When You Were One-and-Twenty"
When you were one-and-twenty
You 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 when you were one-and-twenty,
My word are no use to thee
When you were one-and-twenty
You heard him say again
"The heart out of the bosom
Was never hiven in vain;
Tis paid with sighs a plenty
And sold for endless rue."
And now you're two-and-twenty,
And oh, you know it was true.
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