THOU strainest through the mountain fern, <br />A most exiguously thin Burn. <br />For all thy foam, for all thy din, <br />Thee shall the pallid lake inurn, <br />With well-a-day for Mr. Swin-Burne! <br />Take then this quarto in thy fin <br />And, O thou stoker huge and stern, <br />The whole affair, outside and in, <br />Burn! <br />But save the true poetic kin, <br />The works of Mr. Robert Burn' <br />And William Wordsworth upon Tin-Tern!<br /><br />Robert Louis Stevenson<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/thou-strainest-through-the-mountain-fern/
