Brown Penny By William Butler Yeats

October 23, 2016 · Filed under changes, cherishing, commerating our Verterans service, dreaming, dreams, fiction/poetry, hope, love, poetry and quotes, stories for youth, Uncategorized

I whispered,’ I am too young.’

And then,  ‘I am old enough.’

Wherefore I threw a penny

To find out if I could love.

‘Go and love, go and love, young man,

If the lady be young  and fair.

O, penny,brown penny, brown penny,

I am looped in the loops of her hair.

O, love is the crooked thing.

There is nobody wise enough,

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,

 

 

 

 

 

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