New poems and variant readings/In the green and gallant Spring

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New poems and variant readings (1918)
by Robert Louis Stevenson
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1916646New poems and variant readings — In the green and gallant Spring1918Robert Louis Stevenson
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IN THE GREEN AND GALLANT SPRING

In the green and gallant Spring,
Love and the lyre I thought to sing,
And kisses sweet to give and take
By the flowery hawthorn brake.


Now is russet Autumn here,
Death and the grave and winter drear,
And I must ponder here aloof
While the rain is on the roof.

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