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1850–1894

XXI

Robert Louis Stevenson

The morning drum-call on my eager ear Thrills unforgotten yet; the morning dew Lies yet undried along my field of noon. But now I pause at whiles in what I do,

And count the bell, and tremble lest I hear ( My work untrimmed ) the sunset gun too soon.

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