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ENVOY: 3. TO AUNTIE by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: CHIEF OF OUR AUNTS - NOT ONLY I
Last Line: "AND WHAT WERE CHILDHOOD, WANTING YOU?"

"Chief of our aunts"--not only I,
But all your dozen of nurselings cry --
"What did the other children do?
And what were childhood, wanting you?"



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