| Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922. | | | | The Happy Wanderer | | By Percy Addleshaw (‘Hemingway’) (1866–1916) |
| | | 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, holds the rose | 5 |
| Is fairer for the wounds the briars make; | |
| He welcomes rain that he his thirst may slake, | |
| The sun because it dries his dripping clothes: | |
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| Treasures experience beyond all store, | |
| Careless if pain or pleasure he shall win, | 10 |
| So that his knowledge widen 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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