Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850–1894). A Child’s Garden of Verses and Underwoods. 1913.
8. Historical Associations
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That now you smoke your pipe around,
Has seen immortal actions done
And valiant battles lost and won.
While I for safety march ahead,
For this is that enchanted ground
Where all who loiter slumber sound.
Here is simple Shepherd’s Land,
Here are the fairy hollyhocks,
And there are Ali Baba’s rocks.
Frozen Siberia lies; where I,
With Robert Bruce and William Tell,
Was bound by an enchanter’s spell.