Transcribed from the 1908 Chatto & Windus edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

Songs of Travel

AND OTHER VERSES

by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

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eighth impression

eighth impression

LONDON CHATTO & WINDUS 1908

The following collection of verses, written at various times and places, principally after the author’s final departure from England in 1887, was sent home by him for publication some months before his death. He had tried them in several different orders and under several different titles, as “Songs and Notes of Travel,” “Posthumous Poems,” etc., and in the end left their naming and arrangement to the present editor, with the suggestion that they should be added as Book III. to future editions of “Underwoods.” This suggestion it is proposed to carry out; but in the meantime, for the benefit of those who possess “Underwoods” in its original form, it has been thought desirable to publish them separately in the present volume. They have already been included in the Edinburgh Edition of the author’s works.

S. C.

CONTENTS

i.

i.

The Vagabond—Give to me the life I love

The Vagabond

ii.

ii.

Youth and Love: i.—Once only by the garden gate

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