Time & Brevity

V

by Robert Louis Stevenson 1850–1894

From Songs of Travel, and Other Verses

Time & Brevity

She rested by the Broken Brook,
She drank of Weary Well,
She moved beyond my lingering look,
Ah, whither none can tell!

She came, she went. In other lands,
Perchance in fairer skies,
Her hands shall cling with other hands,
Her eyes to other eyes.

She vanished. In the sounding town,
Will she remember too?
Will she recall the eyes of brown
As I recall the blue?

MLA

Stevenson, Robert Louis. “V.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/stevenson/62/.

Chicago

Stevenson, Robert Louis. “V.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/stevenson/62/.

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