Songs from Vagabondia

<h3><SPAN name="LAUNA_DEE" name="LAUNA_DEE"></SPAN>LAUNA DEE.</h3> <p>Weary, oh, so weary <br/>With it all! <br/>Sunny days or dreary&mdash; <br/>How they pall! <br/>Why should we be heroes, <br/>Launa Dee, <br/>Striving to no winning? <br/>Let the world be Zero's! <br/>As in the beginning <br/>Let it be! <br/> <br/>What good comes of toiling, <br/>When all's done? <br/>Frail green sprays for spoiling <br/>Of the sun; <br/>Laurel leaf or myrtle, <br/>Love or fame&mdash; <br/>Ah, what odds what spray, sweet? <br/>Time, that makes life fertile, <br/>Makes its blooms decay, sweet, <br/>As they came. <br/> <br/>Lie here with me dreaming, <br/>Cheek to cheek, <br/>Lithe limbs twined and gleaming, <br/>Brown and sleek; <br/>Like two serpents coiling <br/>In their lair. <br/>Where's the good of wreathing <br/>Sprays for Time's despoiling? <br/>Let me feel your breathing <br/>In my hair. <br/> <br/>You and I together&mdash; <br/>Was it so? <br/>In the August weather <br/>Long ago! <br/>Did we kiss and fellow, <br/>Side by side, <br/>Till the sunbeams quickened <br/>From our stalks great yellow <br/>Sunflowers, till we sickened <br/>There and died? <br/> <br/>Were we tigers creeping <br/>Through the glade <br/>Where our prey lay sleeping, <br/>Unafraid, <br/>In some Eastern jungle? <br/>Better so. <br/>I am sure the snarling <br/>Beasts could never bungle <br/>Life as men do, darling, <br/>Who half know. <br/> <br/>Ah, if all of life, love, <br/>Were the living! <br/>Just to cease from strife, love, <br/>And from grieving; <br/>Let the swift world pass us, <br/>You and me, <br/>Stilled from all aspiring,&mdash; <br/>Sinai nor Parnassus <br/>Longer worth desiring, <br/>Launa Dee! <br/> <br/>Just to live like lilies <br/>In the lake! <br/>Where no thought nor will is, <br/>To mistake! <br/>Just to lose the human <br/>Eyes that weep! <br/>Just to cease from seeming <br/>Longer man and woman! <br/>Just to reach the dreaming <br/>And the sleep!</p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />