“In the highlands, in the country places,
Where the old plain men have rosy faces,
And the young fair maidens
Quiet eyes.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson , book Songs of Travel and Other Verses

No. XV
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)

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

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