Songs from Vagabondia by Richard Hovey;Bliss Carman
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page 64 of 68 (94%)
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Set the sapling's heart on fire.
Bobolincolns in the meadows, Leisure in the purple shadows, Till the poppies without number Bowed their heads in crimson slumber, And the twilight came to cover Every unreluctant lover. Not a night but some brown maiden Bettered all the dusk she strayed in, While the roses in her hair Bankrupted oblivion there. Oh, but life went gayly, gayly, In the house of Idiedaily! But this hostelry, The Barrow, With its chambers, bare and narrow, Mean, ill-windowed, damp, and wormy, Where the silence makes you squirmy, And the guests are never seen to, Is a vile place, a mere lean-to, Not a traveller speaks well of, |
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