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35656The Annotated 'Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes' — The Country Of The CamisardsRobert Louis Stevenson

The Country Of The Camisards[1]


We travelled in the print of olden wars;
Yet all the land was green;
And love we found, and peace,
Where fire and war had been.
They pass and smile, the children of the sword—
No more the sword they wield;
And O, how deep the corn
Along the battlefield!
--W. P. Bannatyne[2]

Notes edit

  1. ↑ The Camisards .. see Camisards.
  2. ↑ Original RLS poem, later published in Underwoods (1887). W.P. Bannatyne is a pseudo-name for Stevenson. Bannatyne is a Scottish name and could be associated with George Bannatyne (1545-1608) who collected Scottish poems. Memorials of George Bannatyne (1545-1608), was published in 1829 with a memoir by Sir Walter Scott, who also founded Bannatyne Club, devoted to the publication of historical and literary material from Scottish sources.
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