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...that, gentle readers, is no little change for the Vagabond who is more suited to an evening musing in his Tower than gadding about Father Knickerbocker's island. But here it is; and, bless his soul, here he is: "Look out der, buddy; this ain't bean town" . . . "Her der, hey der, Tigers fav'red; pape, mister, pape!" Hold thy prophecy, youngster, the game is . . . "Ah, nertz; read al' 'bout...
...Personal liberties? . . . Lord bless you, you can't even sing in the bathtub in an apartment house without running the risk of a jail sentence. There is not much in our lives but what is bound...
Benito Mussolini, whose vexation with Pope Pius XI for not coming out for the War is great, again tested His Holiness last week by sending to the Holy See a new Italian Ambassador who asked Il Papa to bless not only Il Re, but also Il Duce. The Supreme Pontiff is never quoted, but his words to Ambassador Count Pignatti-Morano Di Custoza were in substance: "We bless His Majesty and his entire Court, granting that benediction in accordance with Your Excellency's desire...
...from being strictly evangelical, the Methodist hymnal contains a hymn by a Roman Catholic nun named Sister Mary Xavier and a hymn beginning Bless the four corners of this house by Arthur Guiterman, skittish versifier for magazines. It also contains some authentic poetry. Thus, Sidney Lanier: Into the woods my Blaster went, clean forspent, forspent; Into the woods my Master went, forspent with love and shame. But the olives they were not blind to him, The little grey leaves were kind to him, The thorn-tree had a mind to him, When into the woods he came...
...Bless his soul, the Vagabond could not help taking that little fairy tale from Heine. It is the Age of Romanticism. And the Vagabond feels his kindred spirits. It is a poetic Germany welcoming back all that is spontaneous and imaginative in literature. It is a time when the Vagabond could indulge all his spiritual instincts; even the wildest and most wayward. And the Vagabond is happy; happy with the good earth which a few years before this age was all the devil...