Maurice Lesemann. Tramps. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22.

Tramps

By Maurice Lesemann


From “Brushwood” MUFFLED in his shabby black clothes
With crab-apple cheeks the wind made ripe—
I wonder where each vagabond goes,
Smoking wise thoughts out of his pipe.

Like a wet blackbird in the rain or	5
Flapping across the prairie in wind,
I wonder if it’s the devil’s gain or
His, since first he sang and sinned.