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    Pirate Story
    Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894

    Three of us afloat in the meadow by the swing,


    Three of us aboard in the basket on the lea.
    Winds are in the air, they are blowing in the spring,
    And waves are on the meadow like the waves there are at sea.

    Where shall we adventure, to-day that we’re afloat,


    Wary of the weather and steering by a star?
    Shall it be to Africa, a-steering of the boat, Portrait by Count Girolamo Nerli, 1892
    To Providence, or Babylon, or off to Malabar?
    Born on November 13, 1850, in Edinburgh,
    Scotland, Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
    Hi! but here’s a squadron a-rowing on the sea—
    About Robert Louis Stevenson>
    Cattle on the meadow a-charging with a roar!
    Quick, and we’ll escape them, they’re as mad as they can be,
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    The wicket is the harbour and the garden is the shore.
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    This poem is in the public domain.
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