More Songs From Vagabondia

MORE SONGS FROM VAGABONDIA
Bliss Carman Richard Hovey
Designs by Tom B. Meteyard
Boston: Copeland and Day London: Elkin Mathews
MDCCCXCVI
COPYRIGHT, 1896, BY BLISS CARMAN AND RICHARD HOVEY.
To M. G. M., so good to lighten cares, The boys inscribe this second book of theirs.

And ever with the vanguard The vagrant singers come The gamins of the city Who dance before the drum
JONGLEURS.
What is the stir in the street? Hurry of feet! And after, A sound as of pipes and of tabers!
Men of the conflicts and labors, Struggling and shifting and shoving, Pushing and pounding your neighbors, Fighting for leeway for laughter, Toiling for leisure for loving! Hark, through the window and up to the rafter, Madder and merrier, Deeper and verier, Sweeter, contrarier, Dafter and dafter, A song arises,-- A thrill, an intrusion, A reel, an illusion, A rapture, a crisis Of bells in the air!