When you were one-and-twenty

 When I was one-and-twenty

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Alfred Edward Housman, usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known to the general public for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad. Lyrical and almost epigrammatic in form, the poems wistfully evoke the dooms and disappointments of youth in the English countryside.

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"When I was one twenty" is a poem written by Housman.

The poem was all about self irony as he recounts how he learned the hard way through actual experience what wiser people tried to teach him.I created my response through the perspective of the wise man and on how he felt. I also created my response by thinking if i was the wise man what would I say to this poem, How would I respond 

 When you were one-and-twenty

 Reginald F. Abellanosa

When you were one-and-twenty

I told you what I knew

But you never listened,
Everything I said to you was true
Your eyes then slowly glistened
As you realize what you had done

When you were one-and-twenty

All you thought about was fun

When you were one-and-twenty

I told you once again
All the things that I had learned

It was for us careless men

What I gave to you was plenty

As I truly cared for you
And now you're two-and-twenty

It's like you're someone new