409. Epigram—The Raptures of Folly

by Robert Burns

 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.

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