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TO H. C. BUNNER by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: YOU KNOW THE WAY TO ARCADY
Last Line: MAY NOT DISDAIN TO HEAR.
Subject(s): CHILDREN; SINGING & SINGERS; CHILDHOOD;

YOU know the way to Arcady
Where I was born;
You have been there, and fain
Would there return.
Some that go thither bring with them
Red rose or jewelled diadem
As secrets of the secret king:
I, only what a child would bring.
Yet I do think my song is true;
For this is how the children do;
This is the tune to which they go
In sunny pastures high and low;
The treble pipes not otherwise
Sing daily under sunny skies
In Arcady the dear;
And you who have been there before,
And love that country evermore,
May not disdain to hear.



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