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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 - Millicent Sowerby

    Project Gutenberg's A Child's Garden of Verses, by Robert Louis Stevenson

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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

    *** 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

    Where the golden apples grow.

    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


    A CHILD'S GARDEN


    THE CHILD ALONE


    GARDEN DAYS


    ENVOYS

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