Project Gutenberg's A Child's Garden of Verses, by Robert Louis StevensonThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withalmost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away orre-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License includedwith this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.orgTitle: A Child's Garden of VersesVerse 158Author: Robert Louis StevensonIllustrator: Millicent SowerbyRelease 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 OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net"Where the golden apples grow." "Where thegolden apples grow."A CHILD'SGARDEN OFVERSESBY ROBERT LOUISSTEVENSON: ILLUSTRATEDBY MILLICENTSOWERBYPHILADELPHIADAVID McKAY, Publisher604-8 So. Washington SquareTO ALISON CUNNINGHAMFROM HER BOYFor the long nights you lay awakeAnd watched for my unworthy sake:For your most comfortable handThat 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 readMay find as dear a nurse at need,And every child who lists my rhyme,In the bright, fireside, nursery clime,May hear it in ...
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