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Poem by Robert Louis Stevenson


A Child's Garden of Verses. 5. Whole Duty of Children


A child should always say what's true
And speak when he is spoken to, 
And behave mannerly at table;
At least as far as he is able.



Robert Louis Stevenson

Poem Theme: Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson's other poems:
  1. Songs of Travel and Other Verses. 13. Mater Triumphans
  2. About the Sheltered Garden Ground
  3. Voluntary
  4. Songs of Travel and Other Verses. 28. To an Island Princess
  5. My Body which My Dungeon Is

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