The Gipsy Trail

1 
The white moth to the closing bine,
  The bee to the opened clover,
And the gipsy blood to the gipsy blood
  Ever the wide world over. 
2 
Ever the wide world over, lass,
  Ever the trail held true,
Over the world and under the world,
  And back at the last to you. 
3 
Out of the dark of the gorgio camp,
  Out of the grime and the grey
(Morning waits at the end of the world),
  Gipsy, come away! 
4 
The wild boar to the sun-dried swamp,
  The red crane to her reed,
And the Romany lass to the Romany lad,
  By the tie of a roving breed. 
5 
The pied snake to the rifted rock,
  The buck to the stony plain,
And the Romany lass to the Romany lad,
  And both to the road again. 
6 
Both to the road again, again!
  Out on a clean sea-track–
Follow the cross of the gipsy trail
  Over the world and back! 
7 
Follow the Romany patteran
  North where the blue bergs sail,
And the bows are grey with the frozen spray,
  And the masts are shod with mail. 
8 
Follow the Romany patteran
  Sheer to the Austral Light,
Where the besom of God is the wild South wind,
  Sweeping the sea-floors white. 
9 
Follow the Romany patteran
  West to the sinking sun,
Till the junk-sails lift through the houseless drift.
  And the east and west are one. 
10 
Follow the Romany patteran
  East where the silence broods
By a purple wave on an opal beach
  In the hush of the Mahim woods. 
11 
"The wild hawk to the wind-swept sky,
  The deer to the wholesome wold,
And the heart of a man to the heart of a maid,
  As it was in the days of old." 
12 
The heart of a man to the heart of a maid– 
  Light of my tents, be fleet.
Morning waits at the end of the world,
  And the world is all at our feet!

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