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UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 29. IN THE STATES by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

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First Line: WITH HALF A HEART I WANDER HERE
Last Line: SAN FRANCISCO.
Subject(s): AGING; BROTHERS; HALF-BROTHERS;
WITH half a heart I wander here
As from an age gone by
A brother -- yet though young in years,
An elder brother, I.

You speak another tongue than mine,
Though both were English born.
I towards the night of time decline
You mount into the morn.

Youth shall grow great and strong and free,
But age must still decay:
To-morrow for the States, -- for me,
England and Yesterday.

SAN FRANCISCO.



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