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Robert W Service - A Rolling Stone
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There`s sunshine in the heart of me,
My blood sings in the breeze;
The mountains are a part of me,
I`m fellow to the trees.
My golden youth I`m squandering,
Sun-libertine am I;
A-wandering, a-wandering,
Until the day I die.

I was once, I declare, a Stone-Age man,
     And I roomed in the cool of a cave;
I have known, I will swear, in a new life-span,
     The fret and the sweat of a slave:
For far over all that folks hold worth,
     There lives and there leaps in me
A love of the lowly things of earth,
     And a passion to be free.

To pitch my tent with no prosy plan,
     To range and to change at will;
To mock at the mastership of man,
     To seek Adventure`s thrill.
Carefree to be, as a bird that sings;
     To go my own sweet way;
To reck not at all what may befall,
     But to live and to love each day.

To make my body a temple pure
     Wherein I dwell serene;
To care for the things that shall endure,
     The simple, sweet and clean.
To oust out envy and hate and rage,
     To breathe with no alarm;
For Nature shall be my anchorage,
     And none shall do me harm.

To shun all lures that debauch the soul,
     The orgied rites of the rich;
To eat my crust as a rover must
     With the rough-neck down in the ditch.
To trudge by his side whate`er betide;
     To share his fire at night;
To call him friend to the long trail-end,
     And to read his heart aright.

To scorn all strife, and to view all life
     With the curious eyes of a child;
From the plangent sea to the prairie,
     From the slum to the heart of the Wild.
From the red-rimmed star to the speck of sand,
     From the vast to the greatly small;
For I know that the whole for good is planned,
     And I want to see it all.

To see it all, the wide world-way,
     From the fig-leaf belt to the Pole;
With never a one to say me nay,
     And none to cramp my soul.
In belly-pinch I will pay the price,
     But God! let me be free;
For once I know in the long ago,
     They made a slave of me.

In a flannel shirt from earth`s clean dirt,
     Here, pal, is my calloused hand!
Oh, I love each day as a rover may,
     Nor seek to understand.
To enjoy is good enough for me;
     The gipsy of God am I;
Then here`s a hail to each flaring dawn!
And here`s a cheer to the night that`s gone!
And may I go a-roaming on
     Until the day I die!

Then every star shall sing to me
Its song of liberty;
And every morn shall bring to me
Its mandate to be free.
In every throbbing vein of me
I`ll feel the vast Earth-call;
O body, heart and brain of me
Praise Him who made it all!
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