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IN DER FREMDE by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES

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First Line: AH! WILD-HEARTED WAND'RER
Last Line: THOU NEVERMORE SHALT SEE.
Subject(s): WANDERING & WANDERERS; WANDERLUST; VAGABONDS; TRAMPS; HOBOES;

Ah! wild-hearted wand'rer
far in the world away
Restless nor knowest why
only thou canst not stay
And now turnest trembling
hearing the wind to sigh:
'Twas thy lover calling
whom thou didst leave forby.

So faint and yet so far
so far and yet so fain --
'Return belov'd to me'
but thou must onward strain:
Thy trembling is in vain
as thy wand'ring shall be.
What so well thou lovest
thou nevermore shalt see.




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