Let me face some bright hazard
Against this rowdy World for you!
A foe to strike, a friend to guard,
Or the looting of some rascal crew,
O, the like of this I'm taking to
As on my way I make advance,
And queer vicissitudes come through,
Full of adventure and multiple chance!

So far, you see, I've not been slain:
Tho' now and then I've sought to raid
Some richly opportune domain,
Only to find the plan I made
Baffled by engine or ambuscade:
But I salute the circumstance,
And slip aside; O the World is laid
Full of adventure and multiple chance!

And while I'm free to ride ahead,
With here or there some prize in view,
Few dangers of the way I dread,
Tho' oft my hungriness I rue:

Still, betimes a crust will do
Cracking fine to nonchalance,
And every day the World is new,
Full of adventure and multiple chance!

For me the road of many directions —
For me the rhyme of long romance!
For me the World of imperfections —
Full of adventure and multiple chance!