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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;
give pearls away and rubies
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
1. how one should spend money
2. how one should accumulate wealth
3. how one should attain wisdom
4. how one should invest love
in the end, the poet wise man's views.
1. doubts
2. agrees with
3. resents
4. considers

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