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Songs of Travel, and Other Verses · Robert Louis Stevenson — chapter 2 of 9 · ~319 words · public domain

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XIX. TO DR. HAKE—In the belovèd hour that ushers day

XX. TO ---—I knew thee strong and quiet like the hills

XXI. The morning drum-call on my eager ear

XXII. I have trod the upward and downward slope

XXIII. He hears with gladdened heart the thunder

XXIV. Farewell, fair day and fading light!

XXV. IF THIS WERE FAITH—God, if this were enough

XXVI. MY WIFE—Trusty, dusky, vivid, true

XXVII. TO THE MUSE—Resign the rhapsody, the dream

XXVIII. TO AN ISLAND PRINCESS—Since long ago, a child at home

XXIX. TO KALAKAUA—The Sliver Ship, my King—that was her name

XXX. TO PRINCESS KAIULANI—Forth form her land to mine she goes

XXXI. TO MOTHER MARYANNE—To see the infinite pity of this place

XXXII. IN MEMORIAM E. H.—I knew a silver head was bright beyond compare

XXXIII. TO MY WIFE—Long must elapse ere you behold again

XXXIV. TO MY OLD FAMILIARS—Do you remember—can we e’er forget?

XXXV. The tropics vanish, and meseems that I

XXXVI. TO S. C.—I heard the pulse of the besieging sea

XXXVII. THE HOUSE OF TEMBINOKA—Let us, who part like brothers, part like bards

XXXVIII. THE WOODMAN—In all the grove, not stream nor bird

XXXIX. TROPIC RAIN—As the single pang of the blow, when the metal is mingled well

XL. AN END OF TRAVEL—Let now your soul in this substantial world

XLI. We uncommiserate pass into the night

XLII. Sing me a song of a lad that is gone

XLIII. TO S. R. CROCKETT—Blows the wind to-day, and the sun and rain are flying

XLIV. EVENSONG—The embers of the day are red

I—THE VAGABOND (To an air of Schubert)

Give to me the life I love, Let the lave go by me, Give the jolly heaven above And the byway nigh me. Bed in the bush with stars to see, Bread I dip in the river— There’s the life for a man like me, There’s the life for ever.

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