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title: "The Raptures of Folly"
author: "Robert Burns"
form: "Poem"
year: "1793"
location: "Dumfries"
source: "Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns"
source_url: "https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1279/pg1279.txt"
canonical_url: "https://robert-burns.com/poems/the-raptures-of-folly/"
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# The Raptures of Folly

## Poem
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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Source: [Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns](https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1279/pg1279.txt)  
Canonical HTML: https://robert-burns.com/poems/the-raptures-of-folly/