The Annotated 'Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes'/Upper Gévaudan (continued)
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- The bed was made, the room was fit,
- By punctual eve the stars were lit;
- The air was still, the water ran;
- No need there was for maid or man,
- When we put up, my ass and I,
- At God’s green caravanserai.
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- --Old Play[1]
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[edit] Notes
- ↑ A poem by Robert Louis Stevenson called "A Camp".[1], later published in Underwoods (1887), a collection of poetry. He pretends to quote from an "Old Play", following a custom of Sir Walter Scott.