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UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 35. SKERRYMORE: THE PARALLEL by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

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First Line: HERE ALL IS SUNNY, AND WHEN THE TRUANT GULL
Last Line: IMMOVABLE, IMMORTAL, EMINENT.

Here all is sunny, and when the truant gull
Skims the green level of the lawn, his wing
Dispetals roses; here the house is framed
Of kneaded brick and the plumed mountain pine,
Such clay as artists fashion and such wood
As the tree-climbing urchin breaks. But there
Eternal granite hewn from the living isle
And dowelled with brute iron, rears a tower
That from its wet foundation to its crown
Of glittering glass, stands, in the sweep of winds,
Immovable, immortal, eminent.



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