New poems and variant readings/Light as the linnet on my way I start

New poems and variant readings (1918)
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Light as the linnet on my way I start
1920832New poems and variant readings — Light as the linnet on my way I start1918Robert Louis Stevenson

LIGHT AS THE LINNET ON, MY WAY I START

Light as the linnet on my way I start,
For all my pack I bear a chartered heart.
Forth on the world without a guide or chart,
Content to know, through all man's varying fates,
The eternal woman by the wayside waits.