Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LIGHT AS THE LINNET ON MY WAY I START, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON


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Last Line: The eternal woman by the wayside waits
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Seeking


Light as the linnet on my way I start,
For all my pack I bear a chartered heart.
Forth on the world without a guide or chart,
Content to know, through all man's varying fates,
The eternal woman by the wayside waits.





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