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Portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson The Annotated 'Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes'…

We travelled in the print of olden wars; Yet all the land was green; And love we found, and peace, Where fire and war had been. They pass and smile, the children of the sword— No more the sword they wield; And O, how deep the corn Along the battlefield! --W. P. Bannatyne [2] Notes ↑ The Camisards .. see Camisards.↑ Original RLS poem, later published in Underwoods (1887) . W.P. Bannatyne is a pseudo-name for Stevenson. Bannatyne is a Scottish name and could be associated with George Bannatyne (1545-1608) who collected Scottish poems.
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