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LO, NOW, MY GUEST, IF AUGHT AMISS WERE SAID by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

Poet Analysis

Last Line: Which is the parent and the child of sleep
Subject(s): FORGIVENESS;

Lo, now, my guest, if aught amiss were said,
Forgive it and dismiss it from your head.
For me, for you, for all, to close the date,
Pass now the ev'ning sponge across the slate;
And to that spirit of forgiveness keep
Which is the parent and the child of sleep.



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