Away With Funeral Music

AWAY with funeral music - set
The pipe to powerful lips -
The cup of life's for him that drinks
And not for him that sips.

About Robert Louis Stevenson

Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, author of Treasure Island and A Child's Garden of Verses.

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