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Title: A Child's Garden of Verses
Verse 154

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

Illustrator: Charles Robinson

Release Date: May 26, 2008 [EBook #25610]

Language: English

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[Illustration: A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES]

[Illustration: ROBERT LOVIS STEVENSON]

EDINBVRGH. VAILIMA
1850 1894

[Illustration]

A CHILD'S
GARDEN OF
VERSES

BY ROBERT
LOVIS
STEVENSON

ILLVSTRATED--BY
CHARLES
ROBINSON.

NEW YORK:
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S
SONS

LONDON:
IOHN LANE.

1895

_Copyright 1895, by Charles Scribner's Sons_

_All rights reserved_

[Illustration]

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

_Bed in Summer_ _Page_ 3

_A Thought_ 5

_At the Seaside_ 6

_Young Night Thought_