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1850–1894

Here, perfect to a wish...

Robert Louis Stevenson

Here, perfect to a wish, We offer, not a dish, But just the platter: A book that's not a book,

A pamphlet in the look But not the matter. I own in disarray: As to the flowers of May

The frosts of Winter; To my poetic rage, The smallness of the page And of the printer.

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