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A Lowden Sabbath Morn

Chapter 33: with Mrs. Stevenson
By Robert Louis Stevenson
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The poem paints a lively Sabbath morning in a small rural parish, opening with bells and the movement of families and neighbours dressing, gathering, and walking to church. It sketches domestic scenes—mothers tending children, young women carefully dressed, and older men reflecting by graves—then shifts to the churchyard and interior, noting the elders, the congregation's divided attention during hymns and prayers, and a preacher whose familiar rhetoric comforts and invites wry observation. Throughout the piece the poet balances affectionate detail with gentle satire of ritual, habit, and communal memory, rendered in a vernacular voice.









The braw words rumm'le ower his heid, Nor steer the sleeper;








And in their restin' graves, the deid Sleep aye the deeper.








Works by Robert Louis Stevenson

AN INLAND VOYAGE.
EDINBURGH: PICTURESQUE NOTES.
TRAVELS WITH A DONKEY.
VIRGINIBUS PUERISQUE.
FAMILIAR STUDIES OF MEN AND BOOKS.
NEW ARABIAN NIGHTS.
TREASURE ISLAND.
THE SILVERADO SQUATTERS.
A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES.
PRINCE OTTO.
THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE.
KIDNAPPED.
THE MERRY MEN.
UNDERWOODS.
MEMORIES AND PORTRAITS.
THE BLACK ARROW.
THE MASTER OF BALLANTRAE.
FATHER DAMIEN: AN OPEN LETTER.
BALLADS.
ACROSS THE PLAINS.
ISLAND NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENTS.
A FOOTNOTE TO HISTORY.
CATRIONA.
WEIR OF HERMISTON.
VAILIMA LETTERS.
FABLES.
SONGS OF TRAVEL.
ST. IVES.
IN THE SOUTH SEAS.
ESSAYS OF TRAVEL.
TALES AND FANTASIES.
THE ART OF WRITING.
PRAYERS WRITTEN AT VAILIMA.
A CHRISTMAS SERMON.

with Mrs. Stevenson

THE DYNAMITER.

with Lloyd Osbourne

THE WRONG BOX.        THE WRECKER.        THE EBB-TIDE.