A Child's Garden of Verses

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  _A
  Child's
  Garden
  of Verses_

  ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

  _Illustrated by
  Jessie Willcox Smith_

  CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, _New York_




  Copyright, 1905, By CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

  Printed in the United States of America

  All rights reserved. No part of this book
  may be reproduced in any form without the
  permission of Charles Scribner's Sons

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  Reset March 1955

[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._




THE ORIGINAL

TITLE PAGE

FOR

A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES

BY

JESSIE WILLCOX SMITH

[Illustration]

  A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES
  ROBERT LOVIS STEVENSON
  WITH ILLVSTRATIONS BY
  JESSIE WILLCOX SMITH

  CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
  NEW YORK     MCMV




CONTENTS


  TO ALISON CUNNINGHAM                                                 vii

  BED IN SUMMER                                                          3

  A THOUGHT                                                              4

  AT THE SEA-SIDE                                                        5

  YOUNG NIGHT-THOUGHT                                                    6

  WHOLE DUTY OF CHILDREN                                                 7

  RAIN                                                                   7

  PIRATE STORY                                                           8

  FOREIGN LANDS                                                          9

  WINDY NIGHTS                                                          10

  TRAVEL                                                                11

  SINGING                                                               13

  LOOKING FORWARD                                                       14

  A GOOD PLAY                                                           15

  WHERE GO THE BOATS?                                                   16

  AUNTIE'S SKIRTS                                                       17

  THE LAND OF COUNTERPANE                                               18

  THE LAND OF NOD                                                       19

  MY SHADOW                                                             20

  SYSTEM                                                                22

  A GOOD BOY                                                            23

  ESCAPE AT BEDTIME                                                     24

  MARCHING SONG                                                         25

  THE COW                                                               26

  HAPPY THOUGHT                                                         27

  THE WIND                                                              28

  KEEPSAKE MILL                                                         29

  GOOD AND BAD CHILDREN                                                 31

  FOREIGN CHILDREN                                                      33

  THE SUN TRAVELS                                                       35

  THE LAMPLIGHTER                                                       36

  MY BED IS A BOAT                                                      37

  THE MOON                                                              39

  THE SWING                                                             40

  TIME TO RISE                                                          41

  LOOKING-GLASS RIVER                                                   42

  FAIRY BREAD                                                           44

  FROM A RAILWAY CARRIAGE                                               45

  WINTER-TIME                                                           46

  THE HAYLOFT                                                           47

  FAREWELL TO THE FARM                                                  49

  NORTH-WEST PASSAGE                                                    50

    1. Good-Night                                                       50

    2.