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1850–1894

As seamen on the seas...

Robert Louis Stevenson

As seamen on the seas With song and dance descry Adown the morning breeze An islet in the sky:

In Araby the dry, As o'er the sandy plain The panting camels cry To smell the coming rain:

So all things over earth A common law obey, And rarity and worth Pass, arm in arm, away;

And even so, to-day, The printer and the bard, In pressless Davos, pray Their sixpenny reward.

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