LOVE'S PAUPER
I travel lighter to-day than of yore, For I used to carry your heart along.Where I joined duet but a year before I now go trilling my one-man song.Yet I laugh . . and laugh . . as I go my way.Who travels lighter than I to-day?
If a footpad wait . . I have naught to lose, At the beggar's hostel . . I find mine inn.A narrow track in the woods I choose A sheep-track threading the cloudy whin:My pedlar's pack has been flung away.Who travels lighter than I to-day?
If the storm-witch leap from her purple cave And smite me here on the grey moor's rim;If Noon should strike with a fiery glaive Till my senses reel and my eyes grow dim;If Death should harry me home to-nightWhat should I care? For I travel light!
