BLOWN out of the prairie in twilight and dew, Half bold and half timid, yet lazy all through; Loath ever to leave, and yet fearful to stay, He limps in the clearing, -- an outcast in gray. A shade on the stubble, a ghost by the wall, Now leaping, now limping, now risking a fall, Lop-eared and large-jointed, but ever alway A thoroughly vagabond outcast in gray. Here, Carlo, old fellow, -- he's one of your kind, -- Go, seek him, and bring him in out of the wind. What! snarling, my Carlo! So -- even dogs may Deny their own kin in the outcast in gray. Well, take what you will, -- though it be on the sly, Marauding, or begging, -- I shall not ask why; But will call it a dole, just to help on his way A four-footed friar in orders of gray! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AT THE ZOO IN SPAIN by CLARENCE MAJOR SPAIN IN AMERICA by GEORGE SANTAYANA RESCUE by JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: EDITOR WHEDON by EDGAR LEE MASTERS BARBARA FRIETCHIE [SEPTEMBER 13, 1862] by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER INGRATITUDE by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH THE SEEKERS by LUCIA TREVITT AURYANSEN |