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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THOUGH DEEP INDIFFERENCE SHOULD DROWSE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
Last Line: Crowned with the light of memory
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Memory
Last Line: Crowned with the light of memory
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Memory
Though deep indifference should drowse
The sluggish life beneath my brows,
And all the external things I see
Grow snow-showers in the street to me,
Yet inmost in my stormy sense
Thy looks shall be an influence.
Though other loves may come and go
And long years sever us below,
Shall the thin ice that grows above
Freeze the deep centre-well of love?
No, still below light amours, thou
Shalt rule me as thou rul'st me now.
Year following year shall only set
Fresh gems upon thy coronet;
And Time, grown lover, shall delight
To beautify thee in my sight;
And thou shalt ever rule in me
Crowned with the light of memory.
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