Underwoods
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Underwoods is a collection of poems by Robert Louis Stevenson published in 1887. It comprises two books, Book I with 38 poems in English, Book II with 16 poems in Scots. He says in the initial note that "I am from the Lothians myself; it is there I heard the language spoken about my childhood; and it is in the drawling Lothian voice that I repeat it to myself."
The dedication is to "a few out of many doctors who have brought me comfort and help." He starts by saying that "There are men and classes of men that stand above the common herd: the soldier, the sailor and the shepherd not infrequently; the artist rarely; rarer still the clergyman; the physician almost as a rule. He is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization ...."

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English
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UNDERWOODS
DEDICATION
NOTE
CONTENTS
BOOK I.—In English
I—ENVOY
II—A SONG OF THE ROAD
III—THE CANOE SPEAKS
IV
V—THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL
VI—A VISIT FROM THE SEA
VII—TO A GARDENER
VIII—TO MINNIE
IX—TO K. DE M.
X—TO N. V. DE G. S.
XI—TO WILL. H. LOW
XII—TO MRS. WILL. H. LOW
XIII—TO H. F. BROWN
XIV—TO ANDREW LANG
XV—ET TU IN ARCADIA VIXISTI
XVI—TO W. E. HENLEY
XVII—HENRY JAMES
XVIII—THE MIRROR SPEAKS
XIX—KATHARINE
XX—TO F. J. S.
XXI—REQUIEM
XXII—THE CELESTIAL SURGEON
XXIII—OUR LADY OF THE SNOWS
XXIV
XXV
XXVI—THE SICK CHILD
XXVII—IN MEMORIAM F. A. S.
XXVIII—TO MY FATHER
XXIX—IN THE STATES
XXX—A PORTRAIT
XXXI
XXXII—A CAMP [66]
XXXIII—THE COUNTRY OF THE CAMISARDS [67]
XXXIV—SKERRYVORE
XXXV—SKERRYVORE: The Parallel
XXXVI
XXXVII
XXXVIII
BOOK II.—In Scots
TABLE OF COMMON SCOTTISH VOWEL SOUNDS
I—THE MAKER TO POSTERITY
II—ILLE TERRARUM
III
IV—A MILE AN’ A BITTOCK
V—A LOWDEN SABBATH MORN
VI—THE SPAEWIFE
VII—THE BLAST—1875
VIII—THE COUNTERBLAST—1886
IX—THE COUNTERBLAST IRONICAL
X—THEIR LAUREATE TO AN ACADEMY CLASS DINNER CLUB
XI—EMBRO HIE KIRK
XII—THE SCOTSMAN’S RETURN FROM ABROAD
XIII
XIV—MY CONSCIENCE!
XV—TO DOCTOR JOHN BROWN
XVI
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