- 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,
- If the lady be young and fair.'
- Ah, 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,
- One cannot begin it too soon.
William Butler Yeats