Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895.
E. Pauline Johnson 18621913The Vagabonds
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Crows a-winging your homeward way?
Crows that worry the sunless west?
Black your record as black your wings.
Plunderous rogues—to-day have you
Lands where earlier suns arise?
Trees that shadow its breast in green,
Crossing the current tauntingly?
With purpling clover lying wide,
Vale-environed a cottage lie—
Nestling down in its meadow lands?
Speak—you rascally renegades.
Olden scenes that I long to see?
Over the place where I was born,
Since dawn, in feather and character;
Ere you enter your slumber-land.