New Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson
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This is my love's last epitaph and tomb.
Here the road forks, and I Go my way, far from yours. THE OLD CHIMAERAS, OLD RECEIPTS THE old Chimaeras, old receipts For making "happy land," The old political beliefs Swam close before my hand. The grand old communistic myths In a middle state of grace, Quite dead, but not yet gone to Hell, And walking for a space, Quite dead, and looking it, and yet All eagerness to show The Social-Contract forgeries By Chatterton - Rousseau - A hundred such as these I tried, And hundreds after that, I fitted Social Theories As one would fit a hat! Full many a marsh-fire lured me on, I reached at many a star, |
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