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Bibliography: "Where Go the Boats" by Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Title
- "Where Go the Boats"
- Author
- Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Date
- Genre
- poetry
- Note Source
- Collected Short Fiction 1892-1912 265, 276
- Note Relating to Cather
- Cather quotes the entire first stanza at the beginning of "The Treasure of Far Island" ("Dark brown is the river . . . ") and the first line of stanza two at the beginning of part two: "Green leaves a-floating." One can look for many allusions to Stevenson throughout that story.
