That all the world must list:
Story sheer witchery, style pure gold,
Yet with that tricksy twist
Of Puck-like mockery which betrays
The wanderer in this world's mad maze,
Not blindly optimist,
Who wooes Romance, yet sadly knows
That Life's sole growth is not the Rose.
So when in 1901 the late Mr. W. E. Henley published his famous disparagement of the official life of Stevenson, Punch, in an address to the "Beloved Shade" of R. L. S., uttered an indignant protest against the attack on his memory.