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- BROWN PENNY
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- 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.
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