A Shropshire Lad XIII - "When I was One and Twenty" by A.E. Housman, read by Stephen J.N. Bauhart

Poetry reading: Youth, growing up, learning, life lessons.

A Shropshire Lad, poem XIII, by A.E. Housman

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.

- Written by A.E. Housman, read by Stephen Bauhart
- Music from Pixabay, by Music for Videos (Oleg Kirilkov), "Come thy Font of Every Blessing"