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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 71

An illustration from A child's garden of verses, 1905, leaf 71 — adies skirts across the grass —O wind, a-blowing all day long,O wind, that sings so loud a song! I saw the different things you did,But always you yourself you hid.I felt you push, I heard you call,I could not see yourself at all —O wind, a-blowing all day long,O wind, that sings so loud a song! O… … [36] XXVIKEEPSAKE MILL OVER the borders, a sin without pardon,Breaking the branches and crawling below,Out through the breach in the wall of the garden,Down by the banks of the river, we go. Here is the mill with the humming of thunder, Here is the weir with the wonder of foam,Here is the sluice…

Children's poetry, English · Poetry

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