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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 96

An illustration from A child's garden of verses, 1905, leaf 96 — Garden Days • … Till a wind or water wrinkle,Dipping marten, plumping trout,Spreads in a twinkleAnd blots all out. See the rings pursue each other ;All below grows black as night,Just as if motherHad blown out the light! Patience, children, just a minute —See the spreading circles die;The stream and all in itWill…

Children's poetry, English · Poetry

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