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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
Born on November 13, 1850, in Edinburgh, Scotland, Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson...
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Poetic Form: Epigram
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Underwoods: Epigram

 
by Robert Louis Stevenson

Of all my verse, like not a single line;   
But like my title, for it is not mine.   
That title from a better man I stole:   
Ah, how much better, had I stol'n the whole.



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