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Thread #14639   Message #126980
Posted By: katlaughing
22-Oct-99 - 07:49 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Wanderlust (Odell Shepard)
Subject: RE: Help: The birds were beating north again
Hi, wheelerb. Sorry for your friend's loss of music books. While I don't think this is the Wanderlust you are looking for, I though I would give you something to read, while I go look for others or someone else wanders in here & posts the one you want. This one is by Robert W. Service. I've only done the fist stanza, as his are LONG and too many line breaks to type in right now. I'll be back.

katlaughing

The Wanderlust has lured me to the seven lonely seas,
Has dumped me on the tailing-piles of dearth;
The Wanderlust has haled me from the morris chairs of ease,
Has hurled me to the ends of all the earth.
How bitterly I've cursed it, oh, the Painted Desert knows,
The wraithlike heights that hug the pallid plain,
The all-but-fluid silence, -- yet the longing grows and grows,
And I've got to glut the Wanderlust again.
Soldier, sailor, in what a plight I've been!
Tinker, tailor, oh what a sight I've seen!
And I'm hitting the trail in the morning, boys,
And you won't see my heels for dust;
For it's "all day" with you
When you answer the cue
Of the Wan-der-lust.