You've no kingdom that endures!

Wandering every fall and spring,

With your ruby crown so slender,

Are you only a Pretender,

Landless king?

  Never king by right divine Ruled a richer realm than mine! What are lands and golden crowns, Armies, fortresses and towns, Jewels, sceptres, robes and rings,— What are these to song and wings? Everywhere that I can fly, There I own the earth and sky; Everywhere that I can sing. There I'm happy as a king.

Never king by right divine

Ruled a richer realm than mine!

What are lands and golden crowns,

Armies, fortresses and towns,

Jewels, sceptres, robes and rings,—

What are these to song and wings?

Everywhere that I can fly,

There I own the earth and sky;

Everywhere that I can sing.

There I'm happy as a king.

1900.

 SCHOOL

 I put my heart to school In the world where men grow wise: “Go out,” I said, “and learn the rule; Come back when you win a prize.”

I put my heart to school

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