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Last Line: With active labour hand in hand
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets


Had I the power that have the will,
The enfeebled will''"a modern curse''"
This book of mine should blossom still
A perfect garden-ground of verse.

White placid marble gods should keep
Good watch in every shadowy lawn;
And from clean, easy-breathing sleep
The birds should waken me at dawn.

''"A fairy garden;''"none the less
Throughout these gracious paths of mine
All day there should be free access
For stricken hearts and lives that pine;

And by the folded lawns all day''"
No idle gods for such a land''"
All active Love should take its way
With active Labour hand in hand.





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