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