Read this excerpt and complete the sentences that follow. A Shropshire Lad
by A. E. Housman (excerpt)
When I was one-and-twenty
I heard a wise man say,
"Give crowns and pounds and guineas
But not your heart away,
Glve pearls away and rubles
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.
The central theme of the poem is
. In the end, the poet
the wise man's views.