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THE FACES AND THE FORMS OF YORE by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

Poet Analysis

Last Line: The mothers of our mothers' show
Subject(s): PAST; MEMORY;

The faces and the forms of yore,
Again recall, again recast;
Let your fine fingers raise once more
The curtains of the quiet past;
And there, beside the English fires
That sung and sparkled long ago,
The sires of your departed sires.
The mothers of our mothers' show.



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