Historical Associations

Historical Associations by Robert Louis Stevenson

 Dear Uncle Jim. this garden ground 
That now you smoke your pipe around, 
has seen immortal actions done 
And valiant battles lost and won. 

Here we had best on tip-toe tread, 
While I for safety march ahead, 
For this is that enchanted ground 
Where all who loiter slumber sound. 

Here is the sea, here is the sand, 
Here is the simple Shepherd's Land, 
Here are the fairy hollyhocks, 
And there are Ali Baba's rocks. 
But yonder, see! apart and high, 
Frozen Siberia lies; where I, 
With Robert Bruce William Tell, 
Was bound by an enchanter's spell.

Form: Light Verse

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