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A E Housman: When I was...

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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.'

Source: A Shropshire Lad, 13
-- A E Housman, (Mar 26 1859-1936), English scholar, poet; His lyrics express a Romantic pessimism in a spare, simple style.

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