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people once laughed but are now honored.

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Travel

TRAVEL

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

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Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. A copy of the "Arabian Nights" that fell into his hands aroused his interest in adventure. He became a famous traveler and a writer of stories. His "Treasure Island" is read by young and old as the best of all pirate-stories, the greatest work of his story-telling art. His health was always delicate and he died in Samoa at the early age of forty-four.

I should like to rise and go

Where the golden apples grow ;-
Where below another sky

Parrot islands anchored lie,

And, watched by cockatoos and goats,

Lonely Crusoes building boats ;—
Where in sunshine reaching out

Eastern cities, miles about,

Are with mosque and minaret
Among sandy gardens set,

And the rich goods from near and far

Hang for sale in the bazaar;

Where the Great Wall round China goes,

And on one side the desert blows,

And with bell and voice and drum,
Cities on the other hum;-

Where are forests, hot as fire,
Wide as England, tall as a spire,
Full of apes and cocoa-nuts
And the negro hunters' huts;-
Where the knotty crocodile
Lies and blinks in the Nile,
And the red flamingo flies,
Hunting fish before his eyes;-
Where in jungles, near and far,

One

VOCABULARY:

The Little Land

ǎn'-chored (kerd)-firmly fixed; held by anchor.
dē-sert'-ed-left without people; abandoned.
blinks-winks; opens and closes the eyes quickly.

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“sweep and prince’’
"camel caravan'
"Egyptian boys'
"knotty crocodile''

THE LITTLE LAND

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

When at home alone I sit
And am very tired of it,
I have just to shut my eyes

To go sailing through the skies-
To go sailing far away

To the pleasant Land of Play;
To the fairy land afar

Where the Little People are;
Where the clover-tops are trees,
And the rain-pools are the seas,
And the leaves like little ships
Sail about on tiny trips;
And above the daisy tree

Through the grasses,
High o'erhead the Bumble Bee
Hums and passes.

In that forest to and fro
I can wander, I can go;
See the spider and the fly,

And the ants go marching by

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