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OF SCHOONERS, ISLANDS, AND MAROONS by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

Poet Analysis

Last Line: Where these and their creations lie
Subject(s): STORY-TELLING;
Of Schooners, Islands and Maroons,
And Torches red and rising moons,
If all the old romance retold
Exactly in the ancient way,
Can please, as me they pleased of old,
The wiser youngsters of today''"
So be it, and fall on! If not,''"
If all the boys on better things
Have set their spirits and forgot''"
So be it and fall on! If not,
If studied youth no longer crave,''"
Their ancients' appetites forgot,''"
Kingston and Ballantyne the brave,
For Cooper of the sea and wood''"
So be it also; and may I
And all my pirates share the grave
Where these and their creations lie.



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