Dreamers and Other Poems

<p><SPAN name="THE_VAGABOND" id="THE_VAGABOND"></SPAN>THE VAGABOND</p> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">The little dream she had forgot</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">Oh, long and long ago,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Came back across the April fields</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">And touched her garment so</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">(As might a wind-blown primrose cling</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">And one scarce guess or know.)</span><br/> <br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">A little beggared outcast dream</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">Forgot of Love and men,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">And all because a fiddler played</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">An old song in the glen,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">And two Young Lovers hand in hand,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">Sent back its tune again.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">The little dream she had forgot</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">Crept near and clung and stayed&mdash;</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">A roving, ragged vagabond</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">Half daring, half afraid,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">And all because young love went by</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">And one old fiddler played.</span><br/> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />