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A child's garden of verses (1905)

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894, Smith, Jessie Willcox, 1863-1935, illus · New York, Scribner · leaf 119

An illustration from A child's garden of verses, 1905, leaf 119 — the jet-black night; It stares through the window-pane;It crawls in the corners, hiding from the light, And it moves with the moving flame. Now my little heart goes a-beating like a drum,With the breath of the Bogie in my hair ; And all round the candle the crooked shadows come,And go marching… … 3. IN PORT Last, to the chamber where I he My fearful footsteps patter nigh, And come from out the cold and gloom Into my warm and cheerful room. There, safe arrived, we turn aboutTo keep the coming shadows out,And close the happy door at lastOn all the perils that we past. [66] Then, when mamma…

Children's poetry, English · Poetry

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