“The untented Kosmos my abode,
I pass, a wilful stranger:
My mistress still the open road
And the bright eyes of danger.”

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

No. II, Youth and Love - I, st. 3.
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)

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