Heart broken!

I heard a good sermon at church yesterday. The young preacher was talking to the teenagers about not jumping into relationships too quickly. He made some valid points and it made me think of a poem I heard when I was a young man. This poem by A.E. Houseman summarizes the preaches speech quite well:

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!"