'Outside'

I want to be lighting my pipe on deck,
  With my baggage safe below—
I want to be free of the crowded quay,
  While the steamer’s swinging slow.
I want to be free of treachery,
  And of sordid joys and griefs—
To be out of sight of the faces white,
  And the waving of handkerchiefs.
I want to be making my ship-board friends,
  I want to be free of the past—
I want to be laughing with kindred souls,
  While the Heads are opening fast.
I want to be sailing far to-day,
  On the tracks where the rovers go,
To feel the heave of the deck, and draw
  The breath that the rovers know.