. Stevenson's workshop . trument they celebrate,but, since the letter to Henley is printed inStevensons correspondence, it is probablywell to give such readers as care for R. L. his jocular moods a chance to peruse theoriginal couplets from which a portion ofthat letter was derived, even if the languageis sometimes more expressive than elegant.— Sir, while we tread the paths of dayStill downward slopes the narrowing way,And still, alas! on one and all,Undue humiliations The speaking changes of my face,And that well-known, insidious grace,Cock of the eye, or strut of walk,Or sweet,
. Stevenson's workshop . trument they celebrate,but, since the letter to Henley is printed inStevensons correspondence, it is probablywell to give such readers as care for R. L. his jocular moods a chance to peruse theoriginal couplets from which a portion ofthat letter was derived, even if the languageis sometimes more expressive than elegant.— Sir, while we tread the paths of dayStill downward slopes the narrowing way,And still, alas! on one and all,Undue humiliations The speaking changes of my face,And that well-known, insidious grace,Cock of the eye, or strut of walk,Or sweet, sequacious flow of talk,And all that erst so well becameMy youth, my talents and my name:Must these, ere yet my prime be sped,These, one and all, be buriedBeneath, 0 my revered Creator, 1 Here Stevenson may have intended to interpolate the fol-lowing lines, which appear in the right-hand margin:—If oil of pines I now must breatheHere all my arts let me bequeath,My arts, my hopes, [56] 7: f <L ? (14 , ? S M 1 I. r~Co j^fl Vv—? , .• - , u*~-o K*>^ »-C^ Us* o* > • J - ^ (-• - ^Wa/vA , /w% * • . y/c—c/Tcjcstt tv^ ^^-<Vfr y *»A -, (s^ cAA * ^ l -1>- - c <.»^A^ fc~J^, /- .-#• / |f4^,^-y Cw<J- ^irvK A—eL t£*~«A , J<T^-x_X W-y (a^X- ^4V—\ k^^kS c—t^ v*M - y~~^ £w. L*^Jw~/» l-X \TAaJU*. J 1 Caaa-^ 1) J^ U*~y A~_^ |«L>t ( tiAcX , wI«JL •—^ U-CA 3 /*-<& La—-* t; \~*XvJ&. , 0 oLc^—; \*~t (U-*_ ^—GZ u-e*^^,.
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