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English source:
Robert Louis Stevenson
I began my little pilgrimage
in the most enviable of all humours
in which a person,
with a sufficiency of money
and a knapsack,
turns his back on a town
walks forwards
into a country
which he knows only
by the vague report of others.
Based on Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Autumn Effect' (1875)
in the most enviable of all humours
in which a person,
with a sufficiency of money
and a knapsack,
turns his back on a town
walks forwards
into a country
which he knows only
by the vague report of others.
Based on Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Autumn Effect' (1875)
Composer
Julian Philips
Julian Philips (born 1969) is a British composer.
Poet
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist and travel writer, most noted for Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and A Child's Garden of Verses. Born and educated in Edinburgh,…