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    A Child’s Garden of Verses
    A Child’s Garden of Verses
    A Child’s Garden of Verses
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    A Child’s Garden of Verses

    By Robert Louis Stevenson

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    Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish author who is considered to be one of the greatest writers of the nineteenth century.  With classics such as Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Stevenson is still one of the most widely read authors today.  This edition of A Child’s Garden of Verses includes a table of contents.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCharles River Editors
    Release dateMar 22, 2018
    ISBN9781531288112
    A Child’s Garden of Verses
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    Robert Louis Stevenson

    Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) spent his childhood in Edinburgh, Scotland, but traveled widely in the United States and throughout the South Seas. He was author of many novels, including The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped, The Black Arrow, and Treasure Island.

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      A Child’s Garden of Verses - Robert Louis Stevenson

      A CHILD’S GARDEN OF VERSES

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      Robert Louis Stevenson

      KYPROS PRESS

      Thank you for reading. If you enjoy this book, please leave a review or connect with the author.

      All rights reserved. Aside from brief quotations for media coverage and reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced or distributed in any form without the author’s permission. Thank you for supporting authors and a diverse, creative culture by purchasing this book and complying with copyright laws.

      Copyright © 2016 by Robert Louis Stevenson

      Interior design by Pronoun

      Distribution by Pronoun

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      A Child’s Garden of Verses

      To Alison Cunningham: From Her Boy

      A Child’s Garden of Verses

      The Child Alone

      Garden Days

      Envoys

      A CHILD’S GARDEN OF VERSES

      ..................

      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.

      A CHILD’S GARDEN OF VERSES

      i

      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?

      ii

      A Thought

      It is very nice to think

      The world is full of meat and drink,

      With little children saying grace

      In every Christian kind of place.

      iii

      At the Sea-Side

      When I was down beside the sea

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