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Say not of me that weakly I declined
The labours of my sires, and fled the sea,
The towers we founded and the lamps we lit…

—Robert Louis Stevenson’s apologia for deserting the family business of lighthouse-building

Assoc for Scottish Literature

On a New Form of Intermittent Light for Lighthouses

“One advantage of the method that I propose is this, that while we are able to produce a plain intermittent light; an intermittent light of variable period, ranging from a brief flash to a steady illumination of half the revolution…”

One of Stevenson’s lesser-known publications, submitted to the Board of Northern Lights, 1870


digital.nls.uk/rlstevenson/bro

This poem accompanied Stevenson’s paper “On a New Form of Intermittent Light for Lighthouses” …