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Epigram—The Raptures of Folly

by Robert Burns, 1793

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.

Published in Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
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