“I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me,
And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head;
And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson, book A Child's Garden of Verses

My Shadow, st. 1.
A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)

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Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer 1850–1894

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