Word: vagabonder
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This morning the Vagabond left his beloved Tower and his mind was filled with many a happy thought, for on this fair day nature with its blue heaven and its gentle breezes and its pure white clouds did seem to run together in sweet arabesques with the Vagabond's own world of happy thoughts and gentle feelings and whimsy moods...
Whimsical...tragic...realistic...exalted...humorous...sensuous...melancholy...cynical...satirical...For joy! for shame! No, 'tis not the Vagabond. Not this time. The little stint this morning has to do with a certain Don Juan hailing from Spain and living many a spicy hour in the land of the Turk; the isles of Greece; the steppes of Russia; even unto Puritanical England...
...Vagabond feels the need of disgression himself. Climbing up his ladder tonight the Old Fellow found the rungs covered with ice! Winter is showing his sharpest teeth. The Tower at this moment is no picnic. Another log, ye merry hag. And fetch the Vagabond's cloak! We'll bear this through as in many winters past. Freedom! Freedom! Isn't that what George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron died for? Another log, merry hag! My fingers are a cold...
...Greece, he turns persistently for satire on the hypocrisies of the society, politics and literature of his time. Don Juan is not great poetry. "It is...meant to be a little quietly facetious upon everything...a playful satire, with as little poetry as could be helped." But the Vagabond likes it: "...when the old world grows dull, And we are sick of its hack sounds and sights..." 'tis good to turn to tales of adventure and the like. 'Tis good to go for an hour or so and learn more about...
...natural phenomena with that of deified heroes, that led them to express the meaning and achievements of their Gods in the eloquent sculpture and temples for which they have been heralded through the ages. And it is for this, for all the glory of the Greeks, that the Vagabond goes to the Fogg Barge Room at 11 this morning to see and hear more about Greek Art, especially The Temple of Zeus at Olympia...