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Variant Readings"  92                STEVENSON'S POEMS
Unfearing, or the seaman from the deep; So from cool night and
woodlands to a feast May someone enter, and still breathe of
dews And in her eyes still wear the dusky night. MEN are
Heaven's piers ; they evermore Unwearying bear the skyey floor ;
Man's theatre they bear with ease, Unfrowning cariatides! I, for
my wife, the sun uphold, Or, dozing, strike the seasons cold.
She, on her side, in fairy-wise Deals in diviner mysteries., By
spells to make the fuel burn And keep the parlour warm, to turn
Water to wine, and stones to bread, By her unconquered hero-
head. A naked Adam, naked Eve, Alone the primal bower we weave ;
Sequestered in the seas of life, A Crusoe couple, man and wife,
With all our good, with all our will, Our unfrequented isle we
fill;