Poet Lore/Volume 28/Number 4/The Vagabond

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3064107Poet Lore, vol. 28, Vacation Number — The Vagabond1917Edith C. Bates

THE VAGABOND

By Edith C. Bates

The vagabond sang at the pasture bar,
(Our house lay snug in the hollow.)
The song that he sang was of lands afar.
(And I would that I might follow.)

The vagabond slept neath the star strewn sky
And he smiled at his dreams a-sleeping;
The soft breeze sang him its lullaby,
The moon o’er him watch was a-keeping.

The vagabond rose in the early gray
(Our house lay snug in the hollow.)
He took to the road with a carol gay,
(And I would that I might follow.)

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