Light As The Linnet On My Way I Start

LIGHT as the linnet on my way I start,
For all my pack I bear a chartered heart.
Forth on the world without a guide or chart,
Content to know, through all man's varying fates,
The eternal woman by the wayside waits.

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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