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THE FAMILY: 5 by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: THE ADORNER OF THE UNCOMELY - THOSE
Last Line: RAISE MY DICTATING VOICE ON HIGH.
Subject(s): FAMILY LIFE; RELATIVES;

5
@3The Adorner of the uncomely@1 - Those
Amidst whose tall battalions goes
Her pretty person out and in
All day with an endearing din,
Of censure and encouragement;
And when all else is tried in vain
See her sit down and weep again.
She weeps to conquer;
She varies on her grenadiers
From satire up to girlish tears!
Or rather to behold her when
She plies for me the unresting pen,
And when the loud assault of squalls
Resounds upon the roof and walls,
And the low thunder growls and I
Raise my dictating voice on high.



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