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Edited by Sidney Colvin

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Title: Songs of Travel
and other verses

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

Editor: Sidney Colvin

Release Date: October 27, 2009 [eBook #487]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SONGS OF TRAVEL***

Transcribed from the 1908 Chatto & Windus edition by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.org

Songs of Travel

AND OTHER VERSES

BY
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

[Picture: Chatto & Windus logo]

EIGHTH IMPRESSION

* * * * *

LONDON
CHATTO & WINDUS
1908

_The following collection of verses_, _written at various times and
places_, _principally after the author's final departure from England in_
1887, _was sent home by him for publication some months before his
death_. _He had tried them in several different orders and under several
different titles_, _as_ "_Songs and Notes of Travel_," "_Posthumous
Poems_," _etc._, _and in the end left their naming and arrangement to the
present editor_, _with the suggestion that they should be added as Book
III. to future editions of_ "_Underwoods_." _This suggestion it is
proposed to carry out_; _but in the meantime_, _for the benefit of those
who possess_ "_Underwoods_" _in its original form_, _it has been thought
desirable to publish them separately in the present volume_. _They have
already been included in the Edinburgh Edition of the author's works_.

_S. C._

CONTENTS

I. THE VAGABOND--Give to me the life I love

II. YOUTH AND LOVE: I.--Once only by the garden gate

III. YOUTH AND LOVE: II.--To the heart of youth the world
is a highwayside

IV. In dreams, unhappy, I behold