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Title: A Child's Garden of Verses
Verse 158

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

Illustrator: Millicent Sowerby

Release Date: May 26, 2008 [EBook #25611]

Language: English

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[Illustration: "Where the golden apples grow."]

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A CHILD'S

GARDEN OF

VERSES

BY ROBERT LOUIS
STEVENSON: ILLUSTRATED
BY MILLICENT
SOWERBY

PHILADELPHIA

DAVID McKAY, PUBLISHER
604-8 So. Washington Square

TO ALISON CUNNINGHAM

FROM HER BOY

_For the long nights you lay awake_
_And watched for my unworthy sake:_
_For your most comfortable hand_
_That led me through the uneven land:_
_For all the story-books you read:_
_For all the pains you comforted:_
_For all you pitied, all you bore,_
_In sad and happy days of yore:--_
_My second Mother, my first Wife,_
_The angel of my infant life--_
_From the sick child, now well and old,_
_Take, nurse, the little book you hold!_

_And grant it, Heaven, that all who read_
_May find as dear a nurse at need,_
_And every child who lists my rhyme,_
_In the bright, fireside, nursery clime,_
_May hear it in as kind a voice_
_As made my childish days rejoice!_

R. L. S.

CONTENTS

PAGE.

A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES 1

THE CHILD ALONE 71

GARDEN DAYS 93

ENVOYS 113

A CHILD'S GARDEN

PAGE.

I. BED IN SUMMER 3

II. A THOUGHT