| Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922. | | | | Wishes | | By Robert Louis Stevenson (18501894) |
| | | GO, little book, and wish to all | |
| Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall, | |
| A bin of wine, a spice of wit, | |
| A house with lawns enclosing it, | |
| A living river by the door, | 5 |
| A nightingale in the sycamore. | | | | |
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