Andrew Macphail, comp. The Book of Sorrow. 1916.
In Memoriam F. A. S.Robert Louis Stevenson (18501894)
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How of human days he lived the better part.
April came to bloom and never dim December
Breathed its killing chills upon the head or heart.
Trod the flowery April blithely for a while,
Took his fill of music, joy of thought and seeing,
Came and stayed and went, nor ever ceased to smile.
You alone have crossed the melancholy stream,
Yours the pang, but his, O his, the undiminished
Undecaying gladness, undeparted dream.
Shame, dishonour, death, to him were but a name.
Here, a boy, he dwelt through all the singing season
And ere the day of sorrow departed as he came.