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Thursday, December 8, 2011

“Winter-Time” — Robert Louis Stevenson | biblioklept

“Winter-Time” — Robert Louis Stevenson | biblioklept
Excerpt:

“Winter-Time,” a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson:

Late lies the wintry sun a-bed,
A frosty, fiery sleepy-head;
Blinks but an hour or two; and then,
A blood-red orange, sets again.

Before the stars have left the skies,
At morning in the dark I rise;
And shivering in my nakedness,
By the cold candle, bathe and dress.

Close by the jolly fire I sit
To warm my frozen bones a bit;........

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