Brown Penny by William Butler Yeats
For those who found the poem recited in the Must Love Dogs by Christopher Plummer to be as well placed and enchanting as I did, here it is in full:
Brown Penny by William Butler Yeats
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,
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