From R.L. Stevenson's Songs of Travel. For background see Lust, Vengeance, Exile & Loss.
I Have Tried the Upward and the Downward Slope
by R.L. Stevenson
I have trod the upward and the downward slope;
I have endured and done in days before;
I have longed for all, and bid farewell to hope;
And I have lived and loved, and closed the door.
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