你若擔心你不能飛

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                            By A. E. Housman