Christmas at Sea The sheets were frozen hard, and they cut the naked hand The decks were like a slide, where a seaman scarce could stand, The wind was a nor'-wester, blowing squally off the sea And the cliffs and spouting breakers were the only thing a-
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We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.Robert Louis Stevenson
Life left by all life's benefits forsaken,
O keep the promise, Lord, and take the life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
You shall speak her soft and fair:
See - you shall say - the love they send
To greet their unforgotten friend!
Robert Louis Stevenson
It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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Small is the trust when love is green
In sap of early years;
A little thing steps in between
And kisses turn to tears.
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