什罗郡的小伙子--A.E.豪斯曼

我二十一岁的时候
      我听到一位智者说，
“王冠，英镑，金币皆可抛
      就是不能献出你的心；
珍珠宝石皆可弃
    但要让你的想象随心所欲。”
但现在我二十一岁了
  跟我讲这些话是没用的

我二十一岁的时候
   又听见他说，
“胸膛里的一颗心
    绝非可以白白掏给人；
'这是叹息很多的付出
    卖出无尽的悔恨。‘
我二十一岁了，
       哦，那是真的，那是真的。
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.

“A Shropshire Lad: XIII” by A.E. Housman from The Collected Poems of A.E. Housman. Public Domain