Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894, Smith, Jessie Willcox, 1863-1935, illus · New York, Scribner · leaf 50
me layTo keep me happy all the day. And sometimes for an hour or soI watched my leaden soldiers go,With different uniforms and drills,Among the bed-clothes, through the hills ; And sometimes sent my ships in fleetsAll up and down among the sheets;Or brought my trees and houses out,And planted… … F XVIITHE LAND OF NOD ROM breakfast on through all the dayAt home among my friends I stay,But every night I go abroadAfar into the land of Nod. All by myself I have to go, With none to tell me what to do — All alone beside the streams And up the mountain-sides of dreams. The strangest things are…
Children's poetry, English · Poetry
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