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Thread #44896   Message #2249202
Posted By: Jim Dixon
30-Jan-08 - 10:02 PM
Thread Name: Tune Req: Vagabond Song
Subject: Lyr Add: A VAGABOND SONG (Bliss Carman)
From Modern American Poetry at Bartleby.com:

A VAGABOND SONG
Bliss Carman.

THERE is something in the autumn that is native to my blood—
Touch of manner, hint of mood;
And my heart is like a rhyme,
With the yellow and the purple and the crimson keeping time.

The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry
Of bugles going by.
And my lonely spirit thrills
To see the frosty asters like a smoke upon the hills.

There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir;
We must rise and follow her,
When from every hill of flame
She calls and calls each vagabond by name.