Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 29. IN THE STATES, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON


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First Line: With half a heart I wander here
Last Line: San francisco.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Aging; Brothers; Half-brothers


WITH half a heart I wander here
As from an age gone by
A brother -- yet though young in years,
An elder brother, I.

You speak another tongue than mine,
Though both were English born.
I towards the night of time decline
You mount into the morn.

Youth shall grow great and strong and free,
But age must still decay:
To-morrow for the States, -- for me,
England and Yesterday.

SAN FRANCISCO.





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