Pequeño monumento Conmemorativo a Robert Louis Stevenson (RLS)
Su obra está muy influida por las experiencias infantiles tempranas: tanto su madre como el pequeño Robert Louis, debido a problemas respiratorios, debían pasar temporadas en cama. Y la niñera Alison Cunningham, llamada «Cummy», que lo cuidaba, causaría un vivo impacto en su imaginación, con sus historias nocturnas truculentas y su austero calvinismo.
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,
To play at home with paper like a child.
But rather say: In the afternoon of time
A strenuous family dusted from its hands
The sand of granite, and beholding far
Along the sounding coast its pyramids
And tall memorials catch the dying sun,
Smiled well content, and to this childish task
Around the fire addressed its evening hours.
The labours of my sires, and fled the sea,
The towers we founded and the lamps we lit,
To play at home with paper like a child.
But rather say: In the afternoon of time
A strenuous family dusted from its hands
The sand of granite, and beholding far
Along the sounding coast its pyramids
And tall memorials catch the dying sun,
Smiled well content, and to this childish task
Around the fire addressed its evening hours.
Underwoods, 1887
En el programa de actividades complementarias visitamos la casa de la niñez de Stevenson y sus alrededores.
