"My Shadow" by Robert Louis Stevenson

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Jul 31, 20162:01Arts

Perhaps better known for his fiction works such as Treasure Island and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson was also a prolific poet, publishing a handful of collections of poems. "My Shadow" was...

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