XXXVIII. “Say not of me that weakly I declined.” Stevenson, Robert Louis. 1913. A Child’s Garden of Verses and Underwoods

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Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850–1894). A Child’s Garden of Verses and Underwoods. 1913.

XXXVIII. “Say not of me that weakly I declined”

SAY not of me that weakly I declined
The labours of my sires, and fled the sea,
The towers we founded and the lamps we lit,
To play at home with paper like a child.
But rather say: In the afternoon of time	5
A strenuous family dusted from its hands
The sand of granite, and beholding far
Along the sounding coast its pyramids
And tall memorials catch the dying sun,
Smiled well content, and to this childish task	10
Around the fire addressed its evening hours.

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