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Bright is the ring of words
When the right man rings them.
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)
The untented Kosmos my abode,
I pass, a wilful stranger:
My mistress still the open road
And the bright eyes of danger.
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)
In the highlands, in the country places,
Where the old plain men have rosy faces,
And the young fair maidens
Quiet eyes.
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)
I will make you brooches and toys for your delight
Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night.
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)
Be it granted me to behold you again in dying,
Hills of home!
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)
Wealth I ask not, hope nor love,
Nor a friend to know me;
All I ask, the heaven above
And the road below me.
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)
God, if this were enough,
That I see things bare to the buff.
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)
Trusty, dusky, vivid, true,
With eyes of gold and bramble-dew,
Steel-true and blade-straight,
The great artificer
Made my mate.
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)