“In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.”

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

Bed in Summer, 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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