Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE FAMILY: 7, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON


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First Line: The old lady (so they say) but I
Last Line: In roaring tree, round whistling clift.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives


7

The old lady (so they say) but I
Admire your young vitality.
Still brisk of foot, still busy and keen
In and about and up and down.
I hear you pass with bustling feet
The long verandahs round, and beat
Your bell, and 'Lotu! Lotu!' cry;
Thus calling our queer company
In morning or in evening dim,
To prayers and the oft mangled hymn.
All day you watch across the sky
The silent, shining cloudlands ply,
That, huge as countries, swift as birds,
Beshade the isles by halves and thirds;
Till each with battlemented crest
Stands anchored in the ensanguined west,
An Alp enchanted. All the day
You hear the exuberant wind at play,
In vast, unbroken voice uplift
In roaring tree, round whistling clift.





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