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THE LIGHT-KEEPER
The early ebb is out : the green
Straight belt of sea-weed now is seen,
That round the basement of the tower
Marks out the interspace of tide ;
And watching men are heavy-eyed,
And sleepless lips are dry and sour.
The night is over like a dream :
The sea-birds cry and dip themselves ;
And in the early sunlight, steam
The newly-bared and dripping shelves,
Around whose verge the glassy wave
With lisping wash is heard to lave ;
While, on the white tower lifted high,
With yellow light in faded glass
The circling lenses flash and pass,
And sickly shine against the sky.
II
As the steady lenses circle
With a frosty gleam of glass ;
And the clear bell chimes,
And the oil brims over the lip of the burner,
Quiet and still at his desk,
The lonely light- keeper
Holds his vigil.
Lured from afar,
The bewildered sea-gull beats
Dully against the lantern ;
Yet he stirs not, lifts not his head
6
1869.
The early ebb is out : the green
Straight belt of sea-weed now is seen,
That round the basement of the tower
Marks out the interspace of tide ;
And watching men are heavy-eyed,
And sleepless lips are dry and sour.
The night is over like a dream :
The sea-birds cry and dip themselves ;
And in the early sunlight, steam
The newly-bared and dripping shelves,
Around whose verge the glassy wave
With lisping wash is heard to lave ;
While, on the white tower lifted high,
With yellow light in faded glass
The circling lenses flash and pass,
And sickly shine against the sky.
II
As the steady lenses circle
With a frosty gleam of glass ;
And the clear bell chimes,
And the oil brims over the lip of the burner,
Quiet and still at his desk,
The lonely light- keeper
Holds his vigil.
Lured from afar,
The bewildered sea-gull beats
Dully against the lantern ;
Yet he stirs not, lifts not his head
6
1869.
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Early editions of Robert Louis Stevenson > Collected works > Works of Robert Louis Stevenson > Appendix > (26) Page 6 |
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1898 [Date published] |
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Edinburgh
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Essays Anthologies |
Person / organisation: |
Colvin, Sidney, 1845-1927 [Author of introduction, etc.] |
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Written and printed matter > Books |
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Dates / events: |
1894-1898 [Date printed] |
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Europe >
United Kingdom >
Scotland >
Edinburgh >
Edinburgh
(inhabited place) [Place printed] |
Subject / content: |
Collected works |
Person / organisation: |
Chatto & Windus (Firm) [Distributor] Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 [Author] T. and A. Constable [Printer] Longmans, Green, and Co. [Publisher] Colvin, Sidney, 1845-1927 [Editor] |
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Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 [Author] |
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