Dreamers and Other Poems

<p><SPAN name="THE_CALL" id="THE_CALL"></SPAN>THE CALL</p> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">I must be off where the green boughs beckon&mdash;</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Why should I linger to barter and reckon?</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">The mart may pay me&mdash;the mart may cheat me,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">I have had enough of the huckster's din,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">The calm of the deep woods waits to greet me,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 4em;">(Heart of the high hills, take me in.)</span><br/> <br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">I must be off where the brooks are waking,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Where birds are building and green leaves breaking.</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Why should the hold of an old task bind me?</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">I know of an eyrie I fain would win</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Where a wind of the West shall seek me and find me,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 4em;">(Heart of my high hills, take me in.)</span><br/> <br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">I must be off where the stars are nearer,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Where feet go swifter and eyes see clearer,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Little I heed what the toilers name me&mdash;</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">I have heard the call that to miss were sin,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">The April voices that clamour and claim me,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 4em;">(Heart of my high hills, take me in.)</span><br/> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />