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A Lowden Sabbath Morn

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Church bells sound through the summer countryside while a rural parish prepares for worship. Robert Louis Stevenson's poem follows a ploughman enjoying his weekly rest, a mother readying her children and neighbours gathering on the dusty road to church. Clothes, sweets and polished shoes give the preparations a domestic warmth. The churchyard introduces a more reflective mood, as family graves call up remembered faces and voices before the congregation takes its places.

The service brings singing, prayer and reading, alongside peppermints, drowsy worshippers and children distracted by a bee at the window. Stevenson gives the scene both affection and humour, noticing the elders' sense of importance and the preacher's forceful judgments about belief. A. S. Boyd's illustrations accompany the verse, and his note describes its rural parish life as familiar across several counties.

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Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for the novels Treasure Island (1883), Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), and Kidnapped (1886) and for the poetry collection A Child's Garden of Verses (1885).

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Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Reading time: About 10 minutes
Pages: 45
Language: English
Genre: Satire
Formats: PDF, EPUB, Read online