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Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I ask, the heaven… — Robert Louis Stevenson

Poem

Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I ask, the heaven above And the road below me.

Robert Louis Stevenson
1894
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Topic
The open road
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Poem
Time
1894
Person
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Current citation
Stevenson, Robert Louis. "The Vagabond." The Collected Poems of Robert Louis Stevenson, edited by Roger C. Lewis. Edinburgh University Press, 2019, st. 4.
Original citation
Stevenson, Robert Louis. "The Vagabond." Songs of Travel. Chatto & Windus, 1896, st. 4.

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