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 SONGS OF TRAVEL

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THE VAGABOND

(To an air of Schubert)

to me the life I love,

Let the lave go by me,

Give the jolly heaven above

And the byway nigh me.

Bed in the bush with stars to see,

Bread I dip in the river—

There's the life for a man like me,

There's the life for ever.

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