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Light As The Linnet On My Way I Start

by Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson

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.




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