To the Hesitating Purchaser:
"If sailor tales to sailor tunes, Storm and adventure, heat and cold,
If schooners, islands, and maroons And Buccaneers and buried Gold
And all the old romance, retold, Exactly in the ancient way,
Can please, as me they pleased of old, The wiser youngsters of to-day:
-So be it, and fall on! If not, If studious youth no longer crave,
His ancient appetites forgot, Kingston, or Ballantyne the brave,
Or Cooper of the wood and wave: So be it, also! And may
"If sailor tales to sailor tunes, Storm and adventure, heat and cold,
If schooners, islands, and maroons And Buccaneers and buried Gold
And all the old romance, retold, Exactly in the ancient way,
Can please, as me they pleased of old, The wiser youngsters of to-day:
-So be it, and fall on! If not, If studious youth no longer crave,
His ancient appetites forgot, Kingston, or Ballantyne the brave,
Or Cooper of the wood and wave: So be it, also! And may
( Robert Louis Stevenson )
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