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1850–1894

XXXI

Robert Louis Stevenson

Sing clearlier, Muse, or evermore be still, Sing truer or no longer sing! No more the voice of melancholy Jaques To wake a weeping echo in the hill;

But as the boy, the pirate of the spring, From the green elm a living linnet takes, One natural verse recapture — then be still.

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