VAGABOND

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1. Oh, why don't you work like other men do?
   How the hell can I work when there's no work to do?
   Hallelujah, I'm a bum, hallelujah, bum again,
   Hallelujah, give us a hand-out to revive us again.—Anonymous, Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
   

2. Are you not scared by seeing that the gypsies are more attractive to us than the Apostles?—EMERSON, Journals
   

3. His house was known to all the vagrant train.—GOLDSMITH, The Deserted Village
   

4. Whose furthest footstep never strayed
   Beyond the village of his birth,
   Is but a lodger for the night
   In this old wayside inn of earth.
   Tomorrow he shall take his pack,
   And set out for the ways beyond,
   On the old trail from star to star,
   An alien and a vagabond.—RICHARD HOVEY, Envoy
   

5. The vagabond, when rich, is called a tourist.—PAUL RICHARD, The Scourge of Christ
   

6. You shall comprehend all vagrom men.—SHAKESPEARE, Much Ado About Nothing
   

7. Nature makes us vagabonds, the world makes us respectable.—ALEXANDER SMITH, Dreamthorp
   

8. Wealth I ask not, hope nor love,
   Nor a friend to know me;
   All I ask, the heavens above,
   And the road below me.—STEVENSON, The Vagabond
   

9. I will sing, I will go, and never ask me why I was born a rover and a passer-by.—RIDGELY TORRENCE, Eye-Witness