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1850–1894

SKERRYVORE

Robert Louis Stevenson

For love of lovely words, and for the sake Of those, my kinsmen and my countrymen, Who early and late in the windy ocean toiled To plant a star for seamen, where was then

The surfy haunt of seals and cormorants: I, on the lintel of this cot, inscribe The name of a strong tower.

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