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So Live, So Love, So Use That Fragile Hour

Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)

SO live, so love, so use that fragile hour,
That when the dark hand of the shining power
Shall one from other, wife or husband, take,
The poor survivor may not weep and wake.

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Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. more…

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