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VAGABONDIA.

Off with the fettersThat chafe and restrain!Off with the chain!Here Art and Letters,Music and wine,And Myrtle and Wanda,The winsome witches,Blithely combine.Here are true riches,Here is Golconda,Here are the Indies,Here we are free—Free as the wind is,Free as the sea,Free!
Houp-la!
What have weTo do with the wayOf the Pharisee?We go or we stayAt our own sweet will;We think as we say,And we say or keep stillAt our own sweet will,At our own sweet will.
Here we are freeTo be good or bad,Sane or mad,Merry or grimAs the mood may be,—

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