Quote #62

I will make you brooches and toys for your delight Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night.

More from Robert Louis Stevenson

  1. The untented Kosmos my abode, I pass, a wilful stranger: My mistress still the open road And the bright eyes of danger.
  2. Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them.
  3. Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I ask, the heaven above And the road below me.
  4. In the highlands, in the country places, Where the old plain men have rosy faces, And the young fair maidens Quiet eyes.
  5. There's just ae thing I cannae bear, An' that's my conscience.
  6. God, if this were enough, That I see things bare to the buff.
  7. My body which my dungeon is, And yet my parks and palaces: - Which is so great that there I go All the day long to and fro.
  8. Trusty, dusky, vivid, true, With eyes of gold and bramble-dew, Steel-true and blade-straight, The great artificer Made my mate.

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