Could I but ride indefinite

Could I but ride indefinite As doth the Meadow Bee And visit only where I liked And No one visit me

And flirt all Day with Buttercups And marry whom I may And dwell a little everywhere Or better, run away

With no Police to follow Or chase Him if He do Till He should jump Peninsulas To get away from me —

I said "But just to be a Bee" Upon a Raft of Air And row in Nowhere all Day long And anchor "off the Bar"

What Liberty! So Captives deem Who tight in Dungeons are.