Hoofs of Pegasus

<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[Pg 49]</SPAN></span></p> <h2>THE PATTERAN</h2> <div class="poetry-container"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0"><span class="bigfont">I</span>’M married to a proper wife,</span> <span class="i0">My home is clean and neat,</span> <span class="i0">But I hear the gypsies calling me,</span> <span class="i0">I love the dancing feet.</span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">I long to up and follow them</span> <span class="i0">Over the rolling moor;</span> <span class="i0">I sicken of my own hearth-fire,</span> <span class="i0">The lilacs by the door.</span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">I long to see the sweep of stars</span> <span class="i0">Wheel nightly overhead;</span> <span class="i0">I want the four strong winds to be</span> <span class="i0">The four posts of my bed.</span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">I long to wake at dawn</span> <span class="i0">When all the world is grey and cool,</span> <span class="i0">And slip into the lonely depth</span> <span class="i0">Of a mountain pool.</span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Three meals my wife sets for me—</span> <span class="i0">Enough for any man.</span> <span class="i0">But on her freshly sanded floor</span> <span class="i0">I see the patteran.</span></div> </div></div> <hr class="chap" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />