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Prayers Written at Vailima by Robert Louis Stevenson
Prayers Written at Vailima by Robert Louis Stevenson
Prayers Written at Vailima by Robert Louis Stevenson
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  • Prayers Written at Vailima
  • 2.5 x 1.9 in (6.35 x 4.83 cm)
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Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894, Prayers Written at Vailima. Los Angeles, CA: Dawson’s Book Shop, 1973. This is Stevenson’s last work, written in Samoa, where he died unexpectedly. The book contains prayers written for his family and the Samoans who shared his home. Below is the last prayer.
[62 p – 2 ½ x 1 15/16 ( 6.35 x 4.9 cm)]
For Mind and Body
Give us peace of mind in our day, O Lord, and a sufficiency of bodily comfort, that we be not tortured with changing friendships or opinions nor crucified by disease, but ever in strength, constancy and pleasantness, walk in a fair way before thy face and in the sight of men; and if it please Thee, O Lord, take us soon in health of mind and honour of body into thy eternal rest.

Prayers-Evening. Samoa.

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