The Annotated 'Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes'/Upper Gévaudan (continued)

by Robert Louis Stevenson

Upper Gévaudan (continued)

The bed was made, the room was fit,

By punctual eve the stars were lit;

The air was still, the water ran;

No need there was for maid or man,

When we put up, my ass and I,

At God’s green caravanserai.

--Old Play^[1]

Notes

1. A poem by Robert Louis Stevenson called "A Camp".[1], later published in Underwoods (1887), a collection of poetry. He pretends to quote from an "Old Play", following a custom of Sir Walter Scott.