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Brown Penny - Poem by William Butler Yeats

by @wichitarick

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..........Poem by William Butler Yeats..........
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Written by
wichitarick
Published
Jun 14, 2016
Time
2m
Notes

Don't post to much of others peoples writings but a few words of this were used & stood out

Unfortunately it was in relation to LOVE but from someone who had also killed their entire family:(

Never knowing ALL that LOVE contains? Rick

"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." Yeats

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