Me and Robert Louis Stevenson

Published June 20, 2016 by Nan Mykel

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I guess I was feeling kind of depressed as a senior in high school, because the main lines I recall from Robert Louis Stevenson on RAIN are not those scattered over Google, but the following:

I am like one who has sat alone

all day on a level plain

with  drooping head and trailing arms

in a ceaseless pour of rain.

I discovered that, unlike me, he didn’t stay depressed, but went on to his last verse:

And the purple fringes of the rain
Rose o’er the scarlet west,
And the birds sang in the soddened furze,
And my heart sang in my breast.

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