New poems and variant readings/For Richmond's Garden Wall

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New poems and variant readings (1918)
by Robert Louis Stevenson
For Richmond's Garden Wall
1916677New poems and variant readings — For Richmond's Garden Wall1918Robert Louis Stevenson

FOR RICHMOND'S GARDEN WALL

When Thomas set this tablet here,
Time laughed at the vain chanticleer;
And ere the moss had dimmed the stone,
Time had defaced that garrison.
Now I in turn keep watch and ward
In my red house, in my walled yard
Of sunflowers, sitting here at ease
With friends and my bright canvases.
But hark, and you may hear quite plain
Time's chuckled laughter in the lane.