• 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.

  Source: A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 13, st. 2

  A. E. Housman
  British poet 1859-1936
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1. one-and-twenty
2. two-and-twenty
3. again
4. heart
5. bosom
6. never

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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

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