- 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