LOUD AND LOW IN THE CHIMNEY 89 I LOVE TO BE WARM BY THE RED FIRESIDE 90 AT LAST SHE COMES 90 MINE EYES WERE SWIFT TO KNOW THEE 90 FIXED IS THE DOOM 91 MEN ARE HEAVEN’S PIERS 92 THE ANGLER ROSE, HE TOOK HIS ROD 93 SPRING CAROL 94 TO WHAT SHALL I COMPARE HER 95 WHEN THE SUN COMES AFTER RAIN 96 LATE, O MILLER 97 TO FRIENDS AT HOME 97 I, WHOM APOLLO SOMETIME VISITED 98 TEMPEST TOSSED AND SORE AFFLICTED 98 VARIANT FORM OF THE PRECEDING POEM 99 I NOW, O FRIEND, WHOM NOISELESSLY THE SNOWS 100 SINCE THOU HAST GIVEN ME THIS GOOD HOPE, O GOD 103 GOD GAVE TO ME A CHILD IN PART 104 OVER THE LAND IS APRIL 105 LIGHT AS THE LINNET ON MY WAY I START 106 COMIC, HERE IS ADIEU TO THE CITY 106 IT BLOWS A SNOWING GALE 107 NE SIT ANCILLÆ TIBI AMOR PUDOR 107 TO ALL THAT LOVE THE FAR AND BLUE 108 THOU STRAINEST THROUGH THE MOUNTAIN FERN 110 p. xivTO ROSABELLE 111 NOW BARE TO THE BEHOLDER’S EYE 112 THE BOUR-TREE DEN 114 SONNETS 118 FRAGMENTS 123 AIR OF DIABELLI’S 128 EPITAPHIUM EROTII 132 DE M. ANTONIO 133 AD MAGISTRUM LUDI 133 AD NEPOTEM 134 IN CHARIDEMUM 135 DE LIGURRA 135 IN LUPUM 136 AD QUINTILIANUM 137 DE HORTIS JULII MARTIALIS 137 AD MARTIALEM 139 IN MAXIMUM 139 AD OLUM 140 DE CŒNATIONE MICÆ 140 DE EROTIO PUELLA 141 AD PISCATOREM 141 THE SILVERADO SQUATTERS BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON WITH A FRONTISPIECE BY JOSEPH D. STRONG LONDON CHATTO & WINDUS 1906 CONTENTS In the Valley: I. Calistoga 13 II. The Petrified Forest 24 III. Napa Wine 34 IV. The Scot Abroad 48 With the Children of Israel: I. To Introduce Mr. Kelmar 59 II. First Impressions of Silverado 68 III. The Return 92 The Act of Squatting 103 The Hunter’s Family 127 The Sea Fogs 153 The Toll House 171 A Starry Drive 185 Episodes in the Story of a Mine 197 Toils And Pleasures 223 AN INLAND VOYAGE BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON A NEW EDITION WITH A FRONTISPIECE BY WALTER CRANE LONDON CHATTO & WINDUS 1904 ‘Thus sang they in the English boat.’ Marvell. CONTENTS PAGE Antwerp to Boom 1 On the Willebroek Canal 8 The Royal Sport Nautique 16 At Maubeuge 25 On the Sambre Canalised: to Quartes 33 Pont-sur-Sambre: We are Pedlars 42 The Travelling Merchant 51 On the Sambre Canalised: to Landrecies 59 At Landrecies 67 Sambre and Oise Canal: Canal boats 75 The Oise in Flood 83 Origny Sainte-Benoîte A By-day 95 The Company at Table 105 Down the Oise: to Moy 116 La Fère of Cursed Memory 124 Down the Oise: Through the Golden Valley 133 Noyon Cathedral 137 Down the Oise: to Compiègne 145 Changed Times 157 Down the Oise: Church interiors 167 Précy and the Marionnettes 177 Back to the world 194 ESSAYS OF TRAVEL by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON LONDON CHATTO & WINDUS 1905 second impression Contents page I.