Alfred Edward Housman poet and pre-eminent classicist of his time, was born near Bromsgrove in Worcestershire 1859–1936, An English poet and scholar, whose verse exerted a strong influence on later poets. Housman proved to be one of the finest classical scholars of his time...This uncomplicated but oh so true poem surely will remind us all of our youthful innocence...here's the link to the page with the sound file..
One and twenty by A E Houseman (sound poem set to music)

Regards.

Jim Clark...
PS..Dont forget you can if you prefer listen to my sound poems at my Yahoo "sound poetry" web group (look in "files") heres that link
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bloozman_uk/

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One and twenty

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.