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Project Gutenberg's A Child's Garden of Verses, by Robert Louis Stevenson This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org 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 Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES *** Produced by Juliet Sutherland Christine D. and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Illustration: "Where the golden apples grow."] [Illustration] 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
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