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Robert Burns (1759–1796). Poems and Songs.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

409 . Epigram—The Raptures of Folly

THOU greybeard, old Wisdom! may boast of thy treasures;

Give me with young Folly to live;

I grant thee thy calm-blooded, time-settled pleasures,

But Folly has raptures to give.