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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.
- A E HOUSEMAN.
The rolling green hills, the views from Mitchells Fold, Shropshire is inspriring, as are the poems, 60 odd in all written by A E Houseamn at the end of the 19th century.
I was fortunate enough to spend magical times there over the Easter Weekend. My pictorial memories
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