The Young Man’s Song W.B Yeats I WHISPERED, ‘I am too young,’ | |
And then, ‘I am old enough’; | |
Wherefore I threw a penny | |
To find out if I might love. | |
‘Go and love, go and love, young man, | 5 |
If the lady be young and fair,’ | |
Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny, | |
I am looped in the loops of her hair. | |
Oh, love is the crooked thing, | |
There is nobody wise enough | 10 |
To find out all that is in it, | |
For he would be thinking of love | |
Till the stars had run away, | |
And the shadows eaten the moon. | |
Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny, | 15 |
One cannot begin it too soon. |
För att det bor förevigt inom mig en hopplös romantiker, livet vore inte värt annars