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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 130

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ws overhead, The little minnows too.This was the world and I was king;For me the bees came by to sing, For me the swallows flew. I played there were no deeper seas,Nor any wider plains than these, Nor other kings than me.At last I heard my mother callOut from the house at evenfall, To call me home… … IV PICTURE-BOOKS IN WINTER S UMMER fading, winter comes —Frosty mornings, tingling thumbs,Window robins, winter rooks,And the picture story-books. Water now is turned to stoneNurse and I can walk upon;Still we find the flowing brooksIn the picture story-books. [77] All the pretty things put by,Wait…

Children's poetry, English · Poetry

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