The rain is over and done; I am aweary, dear, of love; I look below and look above, On russet maiden, rustling dame, And love’s so slow and time so long, And hearts and eyes so blindly wrong, I am half weary of my love, And pray that life were done.
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First published in Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson (Hitherto Unpublished) (1921). The volume's title page states that these poems were hitherto unpublished, and no earlier printing of them has been established. The 1921 date is the year of first printing, but not necessarily of this exact copy: the volume states that it is a complimentary edition struck from the same type forms as the Bibliophile Society's edition of the same year. [1]
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Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894).
“The Rain Is Over and Done.” First published in Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson (Hitherto Unpublished) (1921).
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