Ad Olum
CALL
me
not
rebel,
though
{
here
at
every
word
{in
what
I
sing
If
I
no
longer
hail
thee
{
King
and
Lord
{
Lord
and
King
I
have
redeemed
myself
with
all
I
had,
And
now
possess
my
fortunes
poor
but
glad.
With
all
I
had
I
have
redeemed
myself,
And
escaped
at
once
from
slavery
and
pelf.
The
unruly
wishes
must
a
ruler
take,
Our
high
desires
do
our
low
fortunes
make:
Those
only
who
desire
palatial
things
Do
bear
the
fetters
and
the
frowns
of
Kings;
Set
free
thy
slave;
thou
settest
free
thyself.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was born at Edinburgh, Scotland, on November 13, 1850. He was a sickly youth, and an only son, for whom his parents had high hopes. When at last Stevenson was able to attend school, he did extremely well and entered the university at sixteen. His family expected him to become a lighthouse engineer, a family profession, but Stevenson agreed, as a compromise, to study law instead. He was a young rebel; he thought that his parents' religion was an abomination, and he soon became known as a bohemian, ranting about bourgeois hypocrisy.