Had I The Power That Have The Will
Robert Louis Stevenson
HAD I the power that have the will, The enfeebled will - a modern curse - This book of mine should blossom still A perfect garden-ground of verse. White placid marble gods should keep Good watch in every shadowy lawn; And from clean, easy-breathing sleep The birds should waken me at dawn. - A fairy garden; - none the less Throughout these gracious paths of mine All day there should be free access For stricken hearts and lives that pine; And by the folded lawns all day - No idle gods for such a land - All active Love should take its way With active Labour hand in hand.
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