Love
To Madame Garschine
From New Poems (1918)
Love
WHAT is the face, the fairest face, till Care,
Till Care the graver—Care with cunning hand,
Etches content thereon and makes it fair,
Or constancy, and love, and makes it grand?
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Stevenson, Robert Louis. “To Madame Garschine.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/stevenson/185/.
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Stevenson, Robert Louis. “To Madame Garschine.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/stevenson/185/.
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