Songs of Travel and Other Verses/I have trod the upward and the downward slope

by Robert Louis Stevenson

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I have trod the upward and the downward slope;
I have endured and done in days before;
I have longed for all, and bid farewell to hope;
And I have lived and loved, and closed the door.