| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| The Happy Wanderer |
| | | Percy Addleshaw (b 186–) |
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| HE is the happy wanderer, who goes | |
| Singing upon his way, with eyes awake | |
| To every scene, with ears alert to take | |
| The sweetness of all sounds; who loves and knows | |
| The secrets of the highway, and the rose | 5 |
| Holds fairer for the wounds the briars make; | |
| Who welcomes rain, that he his thirst may slake,— | |
| The sun, because it dries his dripping clothes; | |
| Treasures experience beyond all store, | |
| Careless if pain or pleasure he shall win, | 10 |
| So that his knowledge widens more and more | |
| Ready each hour to worship or to sin; | |
| Until tired, wise, content, he halts before | |
| The sign o’ the Grave, a cool and quiet inn. | |
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