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Robert Louis Stevenson
was born in
1850, in
Edinburgh, Scotland. He was a sickly individual and struggled against poor
health and tuberculosis throughout his life. He studied law at University and
was admitted to the bar in 1875, but never practiced due to an ever growing
passion for writing. In 1880, at the age of thirty, he married Frances Osbourne,
an American divorcee ten years his senior. In 1883 he wrote the first of the two
books for which he is best known, Treasure Island, and in 1886, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. In search of climates that
would be better suited to his fragile health, he moved to one of the Islands in
what is now Western Samoa in 1889 and continued to write, but eventually
succumbed to ill health and died
in 1894. |
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Robert Louis
Stevenson
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The Wind
I saw you toss the
kites on high
And blow the birds about the sky;
And all around I heard you pass,
Like ladies' skirts across the grass--
O wind, a-blowing all day long,
O wind, that sings so loud a song!
I saw the different things you did,
But always you yourself you hid.
I felt you push, I heard you call,
I could not see yourself at all--
O wind, a-blowing all day long,
O wind, that sings so loud a song!
O you that are so strong and cold,
O blower, are you young or old?
Are you a beast of field and tree,
Or just a stronger child than me?
O wind, a-blowing all day long,
O wind, that sings so loud a song!
Robert Louis Stevenson
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toss the kites on high: levantar las cometas (barriletes) en lo
alto
a-blowing: soplando
so loud: tan fuerte
you hid: te ocultaste (to hide/hid/hidden/hiding)
I felt you push: te sentí empujar
I heard you call: te oí llamar
at all: en absoluto, para nada
blower: soplador, aventador
beast: fiera, bestia
stronger child than me: un niño más fuerte que yo |
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