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LINES FOR H.F. BROWN by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

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First Line: YES, I REMEMBER, AND STILL REMEMBER WAILING
Last Line: I IN MY LESIURE MADE THE PRESENT VERSE.
Subject(s): BROWN, HORATIO FORBES (1854-1926); SEA VOYAGES;
Yes, I remember, and still remember wailing
Wind in the clouds and rainy sea-horizon,
Empty and lit with low, nocturnal glimmer,
How in the strong, deep-plunging, transatlantic
Emigrant ship we sang our songs in chorus.
Piping, the gull flew by, the roaring billows
Yawned and resounded round the mighty vessel
Infinite uproar, endless contradiction;
Yet over all our chorus rose reminding
Wanderers here at sea of unforgotten
Homes and undying, old, memorial loves.

Brown in his haste demanded this from me.
I in my lesiure made the present verse.


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