58

THE LAND OF NOD 60

FAIRY BREAD 61

KEEPSAKE MILL 62

WINTER-TIME 64

LOOKING-GLASS RIVER 66

THE SUN'S TRAVELS 69

THE LAMPLIGHTER 70

FOREIGN CHILDREN 73

THE MOON 74

THE HAYLOFT 77

FAREWELL TO THE FARM 78

A THOUGHT 80

SINGING 81

NORTH-WEST PASSAGE
I. Good-night 82
II. Shadow March 84
III. In Port 86

TO MY MOTHER 88

GUIDE TO PRONUNCIATION 89

A WORD LIST 90

[Illustration]

A CHILD'S
GARDEN
of
VERSES

[Illustration: _"I have to go to bed by day."_]

BED IN SUMMER

In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer, quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.

I have to go to bed and see
The birds still hopping on the tree,
Or hear the grown-up people's feet
Still going past me in the street.

And does it not seem hard to you
When all the sky is clear and blue,
And I should like so much to play,
To have to go to bed by day?

[Illustration: _"So fine a show was never seen."_]

YOUNG NIGHT THOUGHT

All night long and every night,
When my mama puts out the light
I see the people marching by,
As plain as day, before my eye.

Armies and emperors and kings,
All carrying different kinds of things,
And marching in so grand a way,
You never saw the like by da