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PRAISE OF FAMOUS MEN: 7. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON by HUMBERT WOLFE

First Line: OR, WHERE GREY AND COLD THE BENT LANDS
Last Line: WET WITH SCOTTISH RAIN.
Subject(s): STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS (1850-1894);

OR, where grey and cold the bent lands
lean against a cloud,
in a garden by the Pentlands
secret, shy and proud,

there's a boy, who brings his nurse
-- Alison -- a chain
not of flowers, but of verse
wet with Scottish rain.



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