Robert Louis Stevenson, an Elegy; and Other Poems
Robert Louis Stevenson, an Elegy; and Other Poems
By Richard Le Gallienne
28 Sep, 2020
Excerpt from Robert Louis Stevenson: An Elegy, and Other Poems Mainly Personal
Robert Louis Stevenson
An Elegy
High on his Patmos of the Southern Seas
Our northern dreamer sleeps,
Strange start above him, and above his grave
Strange leaves and
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Excerpt from Robert Louis Stevenson: An Elegy, and Other Poems Mainly Personal
Robert Louis Stevenson
An Elegy
High on his Patmos of the Southern Seas
Our northern dreamer sleeps,
Strange start above him, and above his grave
Strange leaves and wings their tropic splendours wave,
While, far beneath, mile after shimmering mile,
The great Pacific, with its faery deeps,
Smiles all day long its silken secret smile.
Son of a race nomadic, finding still
Its home in regious furthest from its home,
Ranging untired the borders of the world,
And resting but to roam; Less