Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated) (885 page)

Begun FEB ended OCT 1

MORAL

EMBLEMS

A

Collection of Cuts and Verses.

By

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.
Author of
The Blue Scalper, Travels with a Donkey, Treasure Island, Not I etc.

Printers:
S. L. OSBOURNE & COMPANY.
Davos-Platz.

See how the children in the print

Bound on the book to see what’s in’t!

O, like these pretty babes, may you

Seize and
apply
this volume too!

And while your eye upon the cuts

With harmless ardour open and shuts,

Reader, may your immortal mind

To their sage lessons not be blind.

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Reader, your soul upraise to see,

In yon fair cut designed by me,

The pauper by the highwayside

Vainly soliciting from pride.

Mark how the Beau with easy air

Contemps the anxious rustic’s prayer,

And casting a disdainful eye,

Goes gaily gallivanting by.

He from the poor averts his head....

He will regret it when he’s dead.

A Peak in Darien
.

Broad gazing on untrodden lands,

See where adventurous Cortez stands;

While in the heavens above his head,

The Eagle seeks its daily bread.

How aptly fact to fact replies:

Heroes and Eagles, hills and skies.

Ye, who contemn the fatted slave,

Look on this emblem and be brave

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See in the print, how moved by whim

Trumpeting Jumbo, great and grim,

Adjusts his trunk, like a cravat,

To noose that individual’s hat.

The sacred Ibis in the distance

Joys to observe his bold resistance.

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Mark, printed on the opposing page,

The unfortunate effects of rage.

A man (who might be you or me)

Hurls another into the sea.

Poor soul, his unreflecting act

His future joys will much contract,

And he will spoil his evening toddy

By dwelling on that mangled body.

Works recently issued by

SAMUEL OSBOURNE & CO.

DAVOS.

NOT I and other poems, by Robert Louis Stevenson.

A volume of enchanting poetry.

BLACK CANYON or wild adventures in the Far West, by S. Osbourne.

A beautiful gift-book.

To be obtained from the Publishers and all respectable BOOK-SELLERS.

Stevenson’s Moral Emblems.

Edition de Luxe: 5 full-page Illustrations.

Price 9 PENCE.

The above speciman cut, illustrates a new departure in the business of OSBOURNE & Co.

Wood engraving, designed and executed by Mr. & Mrs. Stevenson and printed under the PERSONAL supervision of Mr. Osbourne, now form a branch of their business.

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Today is published by
S. L. Osbourne & Co.
A

Second Collection Of

MORAL

EMBLEMS.

By
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.

Edition de Luxe
, tall paper, (extra fine) first impression. Price 10 pence.

Popular Edition
, for the Million, small paper, cuts slightly worn, a great bargain, 8 pence.

NOTICE!!!

A literary curiosity: Part of the M. S. of ‘
Black Canyon
.’ Price 1s. 6d.

Apply to

SAMUEL OSBOURNE & Co

Buol Chalet (Villa Stein,) Davos.

 MORAL

EMBLEMS

A Second

Collection of Cuts and Verses.

By

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.
Author of
Latter-day Arabian Nights, Travels
with a Donkey, Not I, &c.

Printers:

S. L. OSBOURNE & COMPANY.

Davos-Platz.

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With storms a-weather, rocks a-lee,

The dancing skiff puts forth to sea.

The lone dissenter in the blast

Recoils before the sight aghast.

But she, although the heavens be black,

Holds on upon the starboard tack.

For why? although today she sink

Still safe she sails in printers’ ink,

And though today the seamen drown,

My cut shall hand their memory down.