StoryTitle("caps", "One-and-Twenty") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Long-expected one-and-twenty, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Ling'ring year, at length is flown: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Pride and pleasure, pomp and plenty, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Great Sir John, are now your own. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Loosen'd from the minor's tether,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Free to mortgage or to sell, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wild as wind and light as feather, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Bid the sons of thrift farewell. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Call the Betsies, Kates, and Jennies, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "All the names that banish care;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lavish of your grandsire's guineas, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Show the spirit of an heir. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All that prey on vice and folly ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Joy to see their quarry fly: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There the gamester, light and jolly,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "There the lender, grave and sly. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wealth, my lad, was made to wander, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Let it wander as it will; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Call the jockey, call the pander, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Bid them come and take their fill.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When the bonny blade carouses, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Pockets full, and spirits high—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What are acres? What are houses? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Only dirt, or wet or dry. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Should the guardian friend or mother", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Tell the woes of wilful waste, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Scorn their counsel, scorn their pother;—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "You can hang or drown at last!", "") ?>
Poet("Samuel Johnson", "1709–1784") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>