| DOWN the world with Marna! | |
| That 's the life for me! | |
| Wandering with the wandering wind, | |
| Vagabond and unconfined! | |
| Roving with the roving rain | 5 |
| Its unboundaried domain! | |
| Kith and kin of wander-kind, | |
| Children of the sea! | |
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| Petrels of the sea-drift! | |
| Swallows of the lea! | 10 |
| Arabs of the whole wide girth | |
| Of the wind-encircled earth! | |
| In all climes we pitch our tents, | |
| Cronies of the elements, | |
| With the secret lords of birth | 15 |
| Intimate and free. | |
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| All the seaboard knows us | |
| From Fundy to the Keys; | |
| Every bend and every creek | |
| Of abundant Chesapeake; | 20 |
| Ardise hills and Newport coves | |
| And the far-off orange groves, | |
| Where Floridian oceans break, | |
| Tropic tiger seas. | |
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| Down the world with Marna, | 25 |
| Tarrying there and here! | |
| Just as much at home in Spain | |
| As in Tangier or Touraine! | |
| Shakespeare's Avon knows us well, | |
| And the crags of Neufchâtel; | 30 |
| And the ancient Nile is fain | |
| Of our coming near. | |
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| Down the world with Marna, | |
| Daughter of the air! | |
| Marna of the subtle grace, | 35 |
| And the vision in her face! | |
| Moving in the measures trod | |
| By the angels before God! | |
| With her sky-blue eyes amaze | |
| And her sea-blue hair! | 40 |
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| Marna with the trees' life | |
| In her veins a-stir! | |
| Marna of the aspen heart | |
| Where the sudden quivers start! | |
| Quick-responsive, subtle, wild! | 45 |
| Artless as an artless child, | |
| Spite of all her reach of art! | |
| Oh, to roam with her! | |
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| Marna with the wind's will, | |
| Daughter of the sea! | 50 |
| Marna of the quick disdain, | |
| Starting at the dream of stain! | |
| At a smile with love aglow, | |
| At a frown a statued woe, | |
| Standing pinnacled in pain | 55 |
| Till a kiss sets free! | |
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| Down the world with Marna, | |
| Daughter of the fire! | |
| Marna of the deathless hope, | |
| Still alert to win new scope | 60 |
| Where the wings of life may spread | |
| For a flight unhazarded! | |
| Dreaming of the speech to cope | |
| With the heart's desire! | |
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| Marna of the far quest | 65 |
| After the divine! | |
| Striving ever for some goal | |
| Past the blunder-god's control! | |
| Dreaming of potential years | |
| When no day shall dawn in fears! | 70 |
| That 's the Marna of my soul, | |
| Wander-bride of mine! | |
