A Vagabond Song: Favorite Poems

A VAGABOND SONG



There is something in the Autumn that is native to my blood--

Touch of manner, hint of mood;

And my heart is like a rhyme,

With the yellow and the purple and the crimson keeping time.



The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry

Of bugles going by.

And my lonely spirit thrills

To see the frosty asters like smoke upon the hills.



There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir,

We must rise and follow her,

When from every hill of flame

She calls and calls each vagabond by name.



--Bliss Carman(1861-1929).



Bliss Carman (born William Bliss Carman; "Bliss" was his mother's maiden name), the "unofficial poet laureate of Canada," or Alan Rickman in another life?