NOW in the sky
And on the hearth of
Now in a drawer the direful cane,
That sceptre of the . . . reign,
And the long hawser, that on the back
Of Marsyas fell with many a whack,
Twice hardened out of Scythian hides,
Now sleep till the October ides.
(Robert Louis Stevenson)
More Poetry from Robert Louis Stevenson:
- After Reading Antony and Cleopatra (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)
- Ad Martialem (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)
- Autumn Fires (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)
- Dedicatory Poem For "Underwoods" (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)
- From a Railway Carriage (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)
- I Love To Be Warm By The Red Fireside (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)