Songs from Vagabondia

<h3><SPAN name="THE_WANDER-LOVERS" name="THE_WANDER-LOVERS"></SPAN>THE WANDER-LOVERS.</h3> <p>Down the world with Marna! <br/>That's the life for me! <br/>Wandering with the wandering wind, <br/>Vagabond and unconfined! <br/>Roving with the roving rain <br/>Its unboundaried domain! <br/>Kith and kin of wander-kind, <br/>Children of the sea! <br/> <br/>Petrels of the sea-drift! <br/>Swallows of the lea! <br/>Arabs of the whole wide girth <br/>Of the wind-encircled earth! <br/>In all climes we pitch our tents, <br/>Cronies of the elements, <br/>With the secret lords of birth <br/>Intimate and free. <br/> <br/>All the seaboard knows us <br/>From Fundy to the Keys; <br/>Every bend and every creek <br/>Of abundant Chesapeake; <br/>Ardise hills and Newport coves <br/>And the far-off orange groves, <br/>Where Floridian oceans break, <br/>Tropic tiger seas. <br/> <br/>Down the world with Marna, <br/>Tarrying there and here! <br/>Just as much at home in Spain <br/>As in Tangier or Touraine! <br/>Shakespeare's Avon knows us well, <br/>And the crags of Neufch&acirc;tel; <br/>And the ancient Nile is fain <br/>Of our coming near. <br/> <br/>Down the world with Marna, <br/>Daughter of the air! <br/>Marna of the subtle grace, <br/>And the vision in her face! <br/>Moving in the measures trod <br/>By the angels before God! <br/>With her sky-blue eyes amaze <br/>And her sea-blue hair! <br/> <br/>Marna with the trees' life <br/>In her veins a-stir! <br/>Marna of the aspen heart <br/>Where the sudden quivers start! <br/>Quick-responsive, subtle, wild! <br/>Artless as an artless child, <br/>Spite of all her reach of art! <br/>Oh, to roam with her! <br/> <br/>Marna with the wind's will, <br/>Daughter of the sea! <br/>Marna of the quick disdain, <br/>Starting at the dream of stain! <br/>At a smile with love aglow, <br/>At a frown a statued woe, <br/>Standing pinnacled in pain <br/>Till a kiss sets free! <br/> <br/>Down the world with Marna, <br/>Daughter of the fire! <br/>Marna of the deathless hope, <br/>Still alert to win new scope <br/>Where the wings of life may spread <br/>For a flight unhazarded! <br/>Dreaming of the speech to cope <br/>With the heart's desire! <br/> <br/>Marna of the far quest <br/>After the divine! <br/>Striving ever for some goal <br/>Past the blunder-god's control! <br/>Dreaming of potential years <br/>When no day shall dawn in fears! <br/>That's the Marna of my soul, <br/>Wander-bride of mine!</p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />