To Friends At Home

Robert Louis StevensonContemplative

TO friends at home, the lone, the admired, the lost The gracious old, the lovely young, to May The fair, December the beloved, These from my blue horizon and green isles, These from this pinnacle of distances I, The unforgetful, dedicate.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Mood:: Contemplative
Topics:: nostalgia, friendship, remembrance, separation

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Standing at a high point where sea meets sky, the speaker looks out at a blue horizon and green islands and thinks of the people he left behind. He names them all: the lonely, the admired, the lost; the gracious old and the lovely young; the freshness of May and the beloved cold of December.

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