The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Vailima ed.)/Volume 8/New Poems/To Miss Rawlinson

by Robert Louis Stevenson

CLXXX

TO MISS RAWLINSON

OF the many flowers you brought me,
Only some were meant to stay,
And the flower I thought the sweetest
Was the flower that went away.

Of the many flowers you brought me,
All were fair and fresh and gay,
But the flower I thought the sweetest
Was the blossom of the May.