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The Vagabond
The Vagabond

Warm-Up
Warm-Up
We all have a house where we live for a long time or permanently unlike a Vagabond who has
no home or precious possession to protect. Read the given poem to find out how a vagabond
leads his life and enjoys himself.

I know the pools where the graylings rise,

I know the trees where the filberts fall.

I know the woods where the red fox lies,

The twisted elms where the brown owls call.

And I’ve seldom a shilling to call my own,

And there’s never a girl I would marry,

I thank the lord I’m a rolling stone

With never a care to carry.

I talk to the stars as they come and go

On every night from July to June,

I’m free of the speech of the winds that blow,

And I know what weather will what tune.

I sow no seed and I pay no rent.

And I thank no man for his bounties,

But I’ve a treasure that’s never spent,

I’m a lord of a dozen countries.

– John Drinkwater

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