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+Project Gutenberg's A Child's Garden of Verses, by Robert Louis Stevenson
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+Title: A Child's Garden of Verses
+
+Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
+
+Illustrator: E. Mars
+ M. H. Squire
+
+Release Date: May 27, 2008 [EBook #25617]
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+ A CHILDS
+ GARDEN
+ of VERSES
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration: _A Child's Garden_]
+
+
+
+
+ A CHILD'S
+ GARDEN
+ of VERSES
+
+
+ By ROBERT
+ LOUIS
+ STEVENSON
+
+
+ ILLUSTRATED by
+ E. MARS
+ AND M. H. SQUIRE
+
+
+ RAND McNALLY &
+ COMPANY
+ CHICAGO
+ NEW YORK
+ LONDON
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+ _Copyright, 1900, by_
+ ROBERT HOWARD RUSSELL
+
+
+ _Copyright, 1902, by_
+ RAND MCNALLY & COMPANY
+
+
+ All rights reserved
+ Edition of 1928
+
+
+
+ [Illustration]
+ Made in U. S. A.
+
+
+
+
+BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION
+
+Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson, or Robert Louis Stevenson, as the world
+knows him, was still a boy when he published this rare volume of "A
+Child's Garden of Verses," although by the calendar he was thirty-five
+years old. You and I have sighed, no doubt, to be a boy again, but here
+was one who, while he outgrew his knickerbockers, never outgrew the quick
+sympathy, the brave heart, the fresh outlook, the confident faith and
+buoyant spirit of the little Scotch boy who roamed the hills 'round
+Edinburgh. Better than any man of any time he was able to enter into the
+heart of a boy, to view things with a boy's eyes, and to write of them in
+simple verse, touched with the warmth and color of his rich imagination.
+In these "Verses" he writes as a child rather than about children, and in
+this lies much of the charm which they possess for little readers. There
+is in them the surprise of reality, the beauty of a simple rhythm, and the
+mysterious flavor of magic that grips a boy's heart and will not let him
+go until the book has become a part of him. Surely this is a rare quality
+in schoolbooks.
+
+The Stevensons had been famous engineers for more than a hundred years,
+building lighthouses along the Scottish coast, and it was natural that his
+father should have expected Robert Louis to follow in the family
+footsteps. But the slim boy with brown eyes, who at eight had written a
+"History of Moses," and illustrated it with his own pen; who was slow to
+learn from books, but quick to understand things that he saw and felt; the
+boy who carried a volume of history in one pocket and a notebook in
+another, had other plans for himself, and even his father came to see the
+wisdom of his son's choice of a literary life. As early as 1873, when
+only twenty-three years old, Stevenson was ordered south for the winter by
+his physician, to ward off impending consumption. For more than twenty
+years, or until his death in Samoa late in 1894, he was never far from
+this pursuing enemy. It followed him over tossing seas and through many
+lands as he journeyed in search of health; yet through all these years he
+carried a brave and happy heart, and wrote at the end this Requiem, the
+last three lines of which are upon his tomb on the mountain-top in Samoa;
+
+ "Under the wide and starry sky,
+ Dig the grave and let me lie.
+ Glad did I live and gladly die,
+ And I laid me down with a will.
+ "This be the verse you grave for me:
+ _Here he lies where he longed to be;_
+ _Home is the sailor, home from sea,_
+ _And the hunter home from the hill_."
+
+Robert Louis Stevenson's first book, "An Inland Voyage," was published in
+1878, when he was twenty-eight years old, and is a fresh and charming
+account of a canoe trip up the rivers of Holland. It was during this
+journey that he wrote: "If we were charged so much a head for sunsets, or
+if God sent around a drum before the hawthorn came into flower, what a
+work we should make about their beauty! But these things, like good
+companions, stupid people early cease to observe."
+
+The next year came his "Travels With a Donkey," which told in the same
+naive style the story of his journey through the Cevennes Mountains with
+no other companion than a donkey, whose gait he describes as being "As
+much slower than a walk as a walk is slower than a run."
+
+He first visited America in 1879, in search of health, returning in 1880
+to Scotland with Mrs. Stevenson, whom he had married in California. In
+1887 he came again with the hope that a dry winter in the Adirondack
+Mountains would stand off the hand of Death. But he was little benefited,
+and took up his search for health by chartering a yacht for a voyage
+through the South Seas. It was on this trip that he fell in love with the
+beauty of the scenery and the healthful climate of Samoa, and in 1890 he
+took up his home there, never again to leave the island except for
+occasional visits to Honolulu and Sydney. And when the time came for him
+to die, the natives, with their knives and axes cut a path up the steep
+mountain-side and carried him on their broad shoulders to his grave on the
+mountain-top.
+
+"A Child's Garden of Verses" was first published in London in 1885, and
+long ago became a children's classic; yet it is now for the first time
+made available as a supplementary reader for the primary grades in a
+suitable form and at a possible price. There have been many and beautiful
+editions, but they have all appealed to "grown-ups" rather than to boys
+and girls to whom the book really belongs. To put such a book, with its
+simple style, its wise observations, its kindly sympathy, and fanciful
+humor into the hands of a boy or girl, is not only to make him happy, it
+is to start him on the straight path to culture.
+
+This volume contains all the poems originally appearing under the title "A
+Child's Garden of Verses." The poems grouped under "The Child Alone,"
+"Garden Days," and "Envoys" have been omitted, as many of them are too
+philosophical to be understood by children in the primary grades.
+
+The illustrations in this book are used by special arrangement with Harper
+& Brothers of New York City, who publish the complete "Verses" in a
+beautiful edition suitable for the home or the library.
+
+So with Stevenson's own words the book is yours:
+
+ "Go little book, and wish to all,
+ Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall,
+ A living river by the door,
+ A nightingale in the sycamore."
+
+E. O. G.
+
+
+
+
+ TO
+ ALISON CUNNINGHAM
+ FROM HER BOY
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+ For the long nights you lay awake
+ And watched for my unworthy sake:
+ For your most comfortable hand
+ That led me through the uneven land:
+ For all the story-books you read:
+ For all the pains you comforted:
+ For all you pitied, all you bore,
+ In sad and happy days of yore:--
+ My second Mother, my first Wife,
+ The angel of my infant life--
+ From the sick child, now well and old,
+ Take, nurse, the little book you hold!
+
+ And grant it, Heaven, that all who read
+ May find as dear a nurse at need,
+ And every child who lists my rhyme,
+ In the bright, fireside, nursery clime,
+ May hear it in as kind a voice
+ As made my childish days rejoice!
+
+R. L. S.
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+ PAGE
+
+ BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION 5
+
+ TO ALISON CUNNINGHAM 8
+
+ BED IN SUMMER 13
+
+ YOUNG NIGHT THOUGHT 15
+
+ RAIN 16
+
+ MY SHADOW 17
+
+ TIME TO RISE 20
+
+ AT THE SEASIDE 21
+
+ WINDY NIGHTS 22
+
+ PIRATE STORY 24
+
+ WHOLE DUTY OF CHILDREN 27
+
+ FOREIGN LANDS 28
+
+ SYSTEM 30
+
+ A GOOD PLAY 32
+
+ THE LAND OF COUNTERPANE 33
+
+ A GOOD BOY 34
+
+ LOOKING FORWARD 36
+
+ THE SWING 37
+
+ GOOD AND BAD CHILDREN 38
+
+ MARCHING SONG 40
+
+ TRAVEL 42
+
+ WHERE GO THE BOATS? 46
+
+ ESCAPE AT BEDTIME 48
+
+ FROM A RAILWAY CARRIAGE 50
+
+ THE WIND 52
+
+ AUNTIE'S SKIRTS 54
+
+ HAPPY THOUGHT 55
+
+ THE COW 56
+
+ MY BED IS A BOAT 58
+
+ THE LAND OF NOD 60
+
+ FAIRY BREAD 61
+
+ KEEPSAKE MILL 62
+
+ WINTER-TIME 64
+
+ LOOKING-GLASS RIVER 66
+
+ THE SUN'S TRAVELS 69
+
+ THE LAMPLIGHTER 70
+
+ FOREIGN CHILDREN 73
+
+ THE MOON 74
+
+ THE HAYLOFT 77
+
+ FAREWELL TO THE FARM 78
+
+ A THOUGHT 80
+
+ SINGING 81
+
+ NORTH-WEST PASSAGE
+ I. Good-night 82
+ II. Shadow March 84
+ III. In Port 86
+
+ TO MY MOTHER 88
+
+ GUIDE TO PRONUNCIATION 89
+
+ A WORD LIST 90
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ A CHILD'S
+ GARDEN
+ of
+ VERSES
+
+[Illustration: _"I have to go to bed by day."_]
+
+
+
+
+BED IN SUMMER
+
+
+ In winter I get up at night
+ And dress by yellow candle-light.
+ In summer, quite the other way,
+ I have to go to bed by day.
+
+ I have to go to bed and see
+ The birds still hopping on the tree,
+ Or hear the grown-up people's feet
+ Still going past me in the street.
+
+ And does it not seem hard to you
+ When all the sky is clear and blue,
+ And I should like so much to play,
+ To have to go to bed by day?
+
+[Illustration: _"So fine a show was never seen."_]
+
+
+
+
+YOUNG NIGHT THOUGHT
+
+
+ All night long and every night,
+ When my mama puts out the light
+ I see the people marching by,
+ As plain as day, before my eye.
+
+ Armies and emperors and kings,
+ All carrying different kinds of things,
+ And marching in so grand a way,
+ You never saw the like by day.
+
+ So fine a show was never seen
+ At the great circus on the green;
+ For every kind of beast and man
+ Is marching in that caravan.
+
+ At first they move a little slow,
+ But still the faster on they go,
+ And still beside them close I keep
+ Until we reach the Town of Sleep.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+RAIN
+
+
+ The rain is raining all around,
+ It falls on field and tree,
+ It rains on the umbrellas here,
+ And on the ships at sea.
+
+
+
+
+MY SHADOW
+
+
+ I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me,
+ And what can be the use of him is more than I can see,
+ He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head;
+ And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed.
+
+ The funniest thing about him is the way he likes to grow--
+ Not at all like proper children, which is always very slow;
+ For he sometimes shoots up taller like an india-rubber ball,
+ And he sometimes gets so little that there's none of him at all.
+
+[Illustration: _"I have a little shadow."_]
+
+ He hasn't got a notion of how children ought to play,
+ And can only make a fool of me in every sort of way.
+ He stays so close beside me, he's a coward you can see;
+ I'd think shame to stick to nursie as that shadow sticks to me!
+
+ One morning, very early, before the sun was up,
+ I rose and found the shining dew on every buttercup;
+ But my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head,
+ Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+Time to Rise.
+
+
+ A birdie with a yellow bill
+ Hopped upon the window sill,
+ Cocked his shining eye and said:
+ 'Ain't you shamed, you sleepy-head?'
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+At the Seaside.
+
+
+ When I was down beside the sea
+ A wooden spade they gave to me
+ To dig the sandy shore.
+ My holes were empty like a cup,
+ In every hole the sea came up.
+ Till it could come no more.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+Windy-Nights
+
+
+ Whenever the moon and stars are set,
+ Whenever the wind is high,
+ All night long in the dark and wet,
+ A man goes riding by.
+ Late in the night when the fires are out,
+ Why does he gallop and gallop about?
+
+ Whenever the trees are crying aloud,
+ And ships are tossed at sea,
+ By, on the highway, low and loud,
+ By at the gallop goes he.
+ By at the gallop he goes, and then
+ By he comes back at the gallop again.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+PIRATE STORY
+
+
+ Three of us afloat in the meadow by the swing.
+ Three of us aboard in the basket on the lea.
+ Winds are in the air, they are blowing in the spring.
+ And waves are on the meadow like the waves there are at sea.
+
+ Where shall we adventure, to-day that we're afloat,
+ Wary of the weather and steering by a star?
+ Shall it be to Africa, a-steering of the boat,
+ To Providence, or Babylon, or off to Malabar?
+
+[Illustration: _"Three of us afloat."_]
+
+ Hi! but here's a squadron a-rowing on the sea--
+ Cattle on the meadow a-charging with a roar!
+ Quick, and we'll escape them, they're as mad as they can be.
+ The wicket is the harbor and the garden is the shore.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+WHOLE DUTY of CHILDREN
+
+
+ A child should always say what's true
+ And speak when he is spoken to,
+ And behave mannerly at table:
+ At least as far as he is able.
+
+[Illustration: _"I looked abroad on foreign lands."_]
+
+
+
+
+FOREIGN LANDS
+
+
+ Up into the cherry tree
+ Who should climb but little me?
+ I held the trunk with both my hands
+ And looked abroad on foreign lands.
+
+ I saw the next door garden lie,
+ Adorned with flowers, before my eye,
+ And many pleasant places more
+ That I had never seen before.
+
+ I saw the dimpling river pass
+ And be the sky's blue looking-glass;
+ The dusty roads go up and down
+ With people tramping into town,
+
+ If I could find a higher tree
+ Farther and farther I should see,
+ To where the grown-up river slips
+ Into the sea among the ships.
+
+ To where the roads on either hand
+ Lead onward into fairy land,
+ Where all the children dine at five,
+ And all the playthings come alive.
+
+
+
+
+SYSTEM
+
+
+ Every night my prayers I say,
+ And get my dinner every day;
+ And every day that I've been good,
+ I get an orange after food.
+
+ The child that is not clean and neat,
+ With lots of toys and things to eat,
+ He is a naughty child, I'm sure--
+ Or else his dear papa is poor.
+
+[Illustration: _"I get an orange after food."_]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+A GOOD PLAY
+
+
+ We built a ship upon the stairs,
+ All made of the back-bedroom chairs,
+ And filled it full of sofa pillows
+ To go a-sailing on the billows.
+
+ We took a saw and several nails,
+ And water in the nursery pails;
+ And Tom said, "Let us also take
+ An apple and a slice of cake";--
+ Which was enough for Tom and me
+ To go a-sailing on, till tea.
+
+ We sailed along for days and days,
+ And had the very best of plays;
+ But Tom fell out and hurt his knee,
+ So there was no one left but me.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+THE LAND OF COUNTERPANE
+
+
+ When I was sick and lay a-bed,
+ I had two pillows at my head,
+ And all my toys beside me lay
+ To keep me happy all the day.
+
+ And sometimes for an hour or so
+ I watched my leaden soldiers go,
+ With different uniforms and drills,
+ Among the bed-clothes, through the hills.
+
+ And sometimes sent my ships in fleets
+ All up and down among the sheets;
+ Or brought my trees and houses out,
+ And planted cities all about.
+
+ I was the giant great and still
+ That sits upon the pillow-hill,
+ And sees before him, dale and plain,
+ The pleasant Land of Counterpane.
+
+[Illustration: _"I was happy all the day."_]
+
+
+
+
+A GOOD BOY
+
+
+ I woke before the morning, I was happy all the day,
+ I never said an ugly word, but smiled and stuck to play.
+
+ And now at last the sun is going down behind the wood,
+ And I am very happy, for I know that I've been good.
+
+ My bed is waiting cool and fresh, with linen smooth and fair.
+ And I must off to sleepsin-by, and not forget my prayer.
+
+ I know that, till tomorrow I shall see the sun arise,
+ No ugly dream shall fright my mind, no ugly sight my eyes.
+
+ But slumber hold me tightly till I waken in the dawn,
+ And hear the thrushes singing in the lilacs round the lawn.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+LOOKING FORWARD
+
+
+ When I am grown to man's estate
+ I shall be very proud and great,
+ And tell the other girls and boys
+ Not to meddle with my toys.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Swing
+
+
+ How do you like to go up in a swing,
+ Up in the air so blue?
+ Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing
+ Ever a child can do!
+
+ Up in the air and over the wall,
+ Till I can see so wide,
+ Rivers and trees and cattle and all
+ Over the countryside--
+
+ Till I look down on the garden green,
+ Down on the roof so brown--
+ Up in the air I go flying again,
+ Up in the air and down!
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+GOOD AND BAD CHILDREN
+
+
+ Children, you are very little,
+ And your bones are very brittle;
+ If you would grow great and stately,
+ You must try to walk sedately.
+
+ You must still be bright and quiet,
+ And content with simple diet;
+ And remain, through all bewild'ring,
+ Innocent and honest children.
+
+ Happy hearts and happy faces,
+ Happy play in grassy places--
+ That was how, in ancient ages,
+ Children grew to kings and sages.
+
+ But the unkind and the unruly,
+ And the sort who eat unduly,
+ They must never hope for glory--
+ Theirs is quite a different story!
+
+ Cruel children, crying babies,
+ All grow up as geese and gabies,
+ Hated, as their age increases,
+ By their nephews and their nieces.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+MARCHING SONG
+
+
+ Bring the comb and play upon it!
+ Marching, here we come!
+ Willie cocks his highland bonnet,
+ Johnnie beats the drum.
+
+ Mary Jane commands the party,
+ Peter leads the rear;
+ Feet in time, alert and hearty,
+ Each a Grenadier!
+
+ All in the most martial manner
+ Marching double-quick;
+ While the napkin like a banner
+ Waves upon the stick!
+
+ Here's enough of fame and pillage,
+ Great commander Jane!
+ Now that we've been round the village,
+ Let's go home again.
+
+[Illustration: _"Marching double-quick."_]
+
+
+
+
+TRAVEL
+
+
+ I should like to rise and go
+ Where the golden apples grow;--
+ Where below another sky
+ Parrot islands anchored lie,
+ And, watched by cockatoos and goats,
+ Lonely Crusoes building boats;--
+ Where in sunshine reaching out
+ Eastern cities, miles about,
+ Are with mosque and minaret
+ Among sandy gardens set,
+ And the rich goods from near and far
+ Hang for sale in the bazaar;--
+ Where the Great Wall round China goes,
+ And on one side the desert blows,
+ And with bell and voice and drum,
+ Cities on the other hum;--
+
+[Illustration: _"Where the red flamingo flies."_]
+
+ Where are forests, hot as fire,
+ Wide as England, tall as a spire,
+ Full of apes and cocoa-nuts
+ And the negro hunters' huts;--
+ Where the knotty crocodile
+ Lies and blinks in the Nile,
+ And the red flamingo flies
+ Hunting fish before his eyes;--
+ Where in jungles, near and far,
+ Man-devouring tigers are,
+ Lying close and giving ear
+ Lest the hunt be drawing near,
+ Or a comer-by be seen
+ Swinging in a palanquin;--
+ Where among the desert sands
+ Some deserted city stands,
+ All its children, sweep and prince,
+ Grown to manhood ages since,
+ Not a foot in street or house,
+ Not a stir of child or mouse,
+ And when kindly falls the night,
+ In all the town no spark of light.
+ There I'll come when I'm a man
+ With a camel caravan;
+ Light a fire in the gloom
+ Of some dusty dining room;
+ See the pictures on the walls,
+ Heroes, fights and festivals;
+ And in a corner find the toys
+ Of the old Egyptian boys.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration: _"Boats of mine a-boating."_]
+
+
+
+
+WHERE GO THE BOATS?
+
+
+ Dark brown is the river,
+ Golden is the sand.
+ It flows along for ever,
+ With trees on either hand.
+
+ Green leaves a-floating,
+ Castles of the foam,
+ Boats of mine a-boating--
+ Where will all come home?
+
+ On goes the river
+ And out past the mill,
+ Away down the valley,
+ Away down the hill,
+
+ Away down the river,
+ A hundred miles or more,
+ Other little children
+ Shall bring my boats ashore.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+ESCAPE AT BEDTIME
+
+ The lights from the parlor and kitchen shone out
+ Through the blinds and the windows and bars;
+ And high overhead and all moving about,
+ There were thousands of millions of stars.
+ There ne'er were such thousands of leaves on a tree,
+ Nor of people in church or the Park,
+ As the crowds of the stars that looked down upon me,
+ And that glistened and winked in the dark.
+
+ The Dog, and the Plough, and the Hunter, and all,
+ And the star of the sailor, and Mars,
+ These shown in the sky, and the pail by the wall
+ Would be half full of water and stars.
+ They saw me at last, and they chased me with cries,
+ And they soon had me packed into bed;
+ But the glory kept shining and bright in my eyes,
+ And the stars going round in my head.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+From A RAILWAY CARRIAGE
+
+
+ Faster than fairies, faster than witches,
+ Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches,
+ And charging along like troops in a battle,
+ All through the meadows the horses and cattle:
+ All of the sights of the hill and the plain
+ Fly as thick as driving rain;
+ And ever again, in the wink of an eye,
+ Painted stations whistle by.
+
+ Here is a child who clambers and scrambles,--
+ All by himself and gathering brambles;
+ Here is a tramp who stands and gazes;
+ And there is the green for stringing the daisies!
+ Here is a cart run away in the road
+ Lumping along with man and load;
+ And here is a mill and there is a river:
+ Each a glimpse and gone for ever!
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+THE WIND
+
+
+ I saw you toss the kites on high
+ And blow the birds about the sky;
+ And all around I heard you pass,
+ Like ladies' 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 you that are so strong and cold,
+ O blower, are you young or old?
+ Are you a beast of field and tree,
+ Or just a stronger child than me?
+ O wind, a-blowing all day long,
+ O wind, that sings so loud a song!
+
+[Illustration: _"I felt you push, I heard you call."_]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+Auntie's Skirts
+
+ Whenever Auntie moves around
+ Her dresses make a curious sound.
+ They trail behind her up the floor,
+ And trundle after through the door.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+HAPPY THOUGHT
+
+
+ The world is so full
+ of a number of things,
+ I'm sure we should all
+ be as happy as kings.
+
+
+
+
+THE COW
+
+
+ The friendly cow all red and white,
+ I love with all my heart;
+ She gives me cream with all her might,
+ To eat with apple-tart.
+
+ She wanders lowing here and there,
+ And yet she cannot stray,
+ All in the pleasant open air,
+ The pleasant light of day;
+
+ And blown by all the winds that pass
+ And wet with all the showers,
+ She walks among the meadow grass
+ And eats the meadow flowers.
+
+[Illustration: _"She walks among the meadow grass."_]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+MY BED IS A BOAT
+
+
+ My bed is like a little boat;
+ Nurse helps me in when I embark;
+ She girds me in my sailor's coat
+ And starts me in the dark.
+
+ At night, I go on board and say
+ Good-night to all my friends on shore;
+ I shut my eyes and sail away
+ And see and hear no more.
+
+ And sometimes things to bed I take,
+ As prudent sailors have to do;
+ Perhaps a slice of wedding-cake,
+ Perhaps a toy or two.
+
+ All night across the dark we steer;
+ But when the day returns at last,
+ Safe in my room, beside the pier,
+ I find my vessel fast.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+THE LAND OF NOD
+
+
+ From breakfast on through all the day
+ At home among my friends I stay,
+ But every night I go abroad
+ Afar 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-side of dreams.
+
+ The strangest things are there for me,
+ Both things to eat and things to see,
+ And many frightening sights abroad
+ Till morning in the Land of Nod.
+
+ Try as I like to find the way,
+ I never can get back by day,
+ Nor can remember plain and clear
+ The curious music that I hear.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+FAIRY BREAD
+
+
+ Come up here, O dusty feet!
+ Here is fairy bread to eat
+ Here in my retiring room,
+ Children, you may dine
+ On the golden smell of broom
+ And the shade of pine;
+ And when you have eaten well,
+ Fairy stories hear and tell.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+KEEPSAKE 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 with the race running under--
+ Marvelous places, though handy to home!
+
+ Sounds of the village grow stiller and stiller,
+ Stiller the note of the birds on the hill;
+ Dusty and dim are the eyes of the miller,
+ Deaf are his ears with the moil of the mill.
+
+ Years may go by, and the wheel in the river
+ Wheel as it wheels for us, children, to-day,
+ Wheel and keep roaring and foaming for ever--
+ Long after all the boys are away.
+
+ Home from the Indies and home from the ocean,
+ Heroes and soldiers we all shall come home;
+ Still we shall find the old mill wheel in motion,
+ Turning and churning that river to foam.
+
+ You with the bean that I gave when we quarreled,
+ I with your marble of Saturday last,
+ Honored and old and all gaily appareled,
+ Here we shall meet and remember the past.
+
+
+
+
+WINTER-TIME
+
+
+ Late lies the wintry sun a-bed,
+ A frosty, fiery sleepy-head;
+ Blinks but an hour or two; and then,
+ A blood-red orange, sets again.
+
+ Before the stars have left the skies,
+ At morning in the dark I rise;
+ And shivering in my nakedness,
+ By the cold candle, bathe and dress.
+
+ Close by the jolly fire I sit
+ To warm my frozen bones a bit;
+ Or with a reindeer-sled, explore
+ The colder countries round the door.
+
+ When to go out, my nurse doth wrap
+ Me in my comforter and cap;
+ The cold wind burns my face, and blows
+ Its frosty pepper up my nose.
+
+ Black are my steps on silvery sod;
+ Thick blows my frosty breath abroad;
+ And tree and house, and hill and lake,
+ Are frosted like a wedding-cake.
+
+[Illustration: _"The cold wind burns my face."_]
+
+
+
+
+LOOKING-GLASS RIVER
+
+
+ Smooth it slides upon its travel,
+ Here a wimple, there a gleam--
+ O the clean gravel!
+ O the smooth stream!
+
+ Sailing blossoms, silver fishes,
+ Paven pools as clear as air--
+ How a child wishes
+ To live down there!
+
+ We can see our colored faces
+ Floating on the shaken pool
+ Down in cool places,
+ Dim and very cool;
+
+ Till a wind or water wrinkle,
+ Dipping marten, plumping trout,
+ Spreads in a twinkle
+ And blots all out.
+
+[Illustration: _"We can see our colored faces."_]
+
+ See the rings pursue each other;
+ All below grows black as night,
+ Just as if mother
+ Had blown out the light!
+
+ Patience, children, just a minute--
+ See the spreading circles die;
+ The stream and all in it
+ Will clear by-and-by.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The SUN'S TRAVELS
+
+
+ The sun is not a-bed, when I
+ At night upon my pillow lie;
+ Still round the earth his way he takes,
+ And morning after morning makes.
+
+ While here at home, in shining day,
+ We round the sunny garden play,
+ Each little Indian sleepy-head
+ Is being kissed and put to bed.
+
+ And when at eve I rise from tea,
+ Day dawns beyond the Atlantic Sea;
+ And all the children in the West
+ Are getting up and being dressed.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+THE LAMPLIGHTER
+
+
+ My tea is nearly ready and the sun has left the sky;
+ It's time to take the window to see Leerie going by;
+ For every night at teatime and before you take your seat,
+ With lantern and with ladder he comes posting up the street.
+
+ Now Tom would be a driver and Maria go to sea,
+ And my papa's a banker and as rich as he can be;
+ But I, when I am stronger and can choose what I'm to do,
+ O Leerie, I'll go round at night and light the lamps with you!
+
+ For we are very lucky, with a lamp before the door,
+ And Leerie stops to light it as he lights so many more;
+ And O, before you hurry by with ladder and with light,
+ O Leerie, see a little child and nod to him to-night!
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration: _"Don't you wish that you were me?"_]
+
+
+
+
+FOREIGN CHILDREN
+
+
+ Little Indian, Sioux or Crow,
+ Little frosty Eskimo,
+ Little Turk or Japanee,
+ O! don't you wish that you were me?
+
+ You have seen the scarlet trees
+ And the lions over seas;
+ You have eaten ostrich eggs,
+ And turned the turtles off their legs.
+
+ Such a life is very fine,
+ But it's not so nice as mine:
+ You must often, as you trod,
+ Have wearied _not_ to be abroad.
+
+ You have curious things to eat,
+ I am fed on proper meat;
+ You must dwell beyond the foam,
+ But I am safe and live at home.
+
+ Little Indian, Sioux or Crow,
+ Little frosty Eskimo,
+ Little Turk or Japanee,
+ O! don't you wish that you were me?
+
+
+
+
+THE MOON
+
+
+ The moon has a face like the clock in the hall;
+ She shines on thieves on the garden wall,
+ On streets and fields and harbor quays,
+ And birdies asleep in the forks of the trees.
+
+ The squalling cat and the squeaking mouse,
+ The howling dog by the door of the house,
+ The bat that lies in bed at noon,
+ All love to be out by the light of the moon.
+
+ But all of the things that belong to the day
+ Cuddle to sleep to be out of her way;
+ And flowers and children close their eyes
+ Till up in the morning the sun shall arise.
+
+[Illustration: _"She shines on thieves on the garden wall."_]
+
+[Illustration: _"O what a place for play."_]
+
+
+
+
+THE HAYLOFT
+
+
+ Through all the pleasant meadow-side
+ The grass grew shoulder-high,
+ Till the shining scythes went far and wide
+ And cut it down to dry.
+
+ These green and sweetly smelling crops
+ They led in wagons home;
+ And they piled them here in mountain-tops
+ For mountaineers to roam.
+
+ Here is Mount Clear, Mount Rusty-Nail,
+ Mount Eagle and Mount High;--
+ The mice that in these mountains dwell,
+ No happier are than I!
+
+ O what a joy to clamber there,
+ O what a place for play,
+ With the sweet, the dim, the dusty air,
+ The happy hills of hay!
+
+[Illustration: _"Good-bye, good-bye, to everything!"_]
+
+
+
+
+FAREWELL TO THE FARM
+
+
+ The coach is at the door at last;
+ The eager children, mounting fast
+ And kissing hands, in chorus sing:
+ Good-bye, good-bye, to everything!
+
+ To house and garden, field and lawn,
+ The meadow-gates we swang upon,
+ To pump and stable, tree and swing,
+ Good-bye, good-bye, to everything!
+
+ And fare you well for evermore,
+ O ladder at the hayloft door,
+ O hayloft where the cobwebs cling,
+ Good-bye, good-bye, to everything!
+
+ Crack goes the whip, and off we go;
+ The trees and houses smaller grow;
+ Last, round the woody turn we swing:
+ Good-bye, good-bye, to everything!
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+A THOUGHT.
+
+
+ It is very nice to think
+ The world is full of meat and drink,
+ With little children saying grace
+ In every Christian kind of place.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+SINGING
+
+ Of speckled eggs the birdie sings
+ And nests among the trees;
+ The sailor sings of ropes and things
+ In ships upon the seas.
+
+ The children sing in far Japan,
+ The children sing in Spain;
+ The organ with the organ man
+ Is singing in the rain.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+NORTH-WEST PASSAGE
+
+
+
+
+GOOD NIGHT
+
+
+ When the bright lamp is carried in,
+ The sunless hours again begin;
+ O'er all without, in field and lane,
+ The haunted night returns again.
+
+ Now we behold the embers flee
+ About the firelit hearth; and see
+ Our faces painted as we pass,
+ Like pictures, on the window-glass.
+
+ Must we to bed indeed? Well then,
+ Let us arise and go like men,
+ And face with an undaunted tread
+ The long black passage up to bed.
+
+ Farewell, O brother, sister, sire!
+ O pleasant party round the fire!
+ The songs you sing, the tales you tell,
+ Till far to-morrow, fare ye well!
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration: _"The wicked shadows coming, tramp, tramp, tramp."_]
+
+
+
+
+II. SHADOW MARCH
+
+
+ All round the house is 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 Bogie in my hair,
+ And all round the candle the crooked shadows come,
+ And go marching along up the stair.
+
+ The shadow of the balusters, the shadow of the lamp,
+ The shadow of the child that goes to bed--
+ All the wicked shadows coming, tramp, tramp, tramp,
+ With the black night overhead.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+III. IN PORT
+
+
+ Last, to the chamber where I lie
+ My fearful footsteps patter nigh,
+ And come from out the cold and gloom
+ Into my warm and cheerful room.
+
+ There, safe arrived, we turn about
+ To keep the coming shadows out,
+ And close the happy door at last
+ On all the perils that we past.
+
+ Then, when mamma goes by to bed,
+ She shall come in with tip-toe tread,
+ And see me lying warm and fast
+ And in the Land of Nod at last.
+
+[Illustration: _"In the Land of Nod at last."_]
+
+
+
+
+TO MY MOTHER
+
+ You, too, my mother, read my rhymes
+ For love of unforgotten times,
+ And you may chance to hear once more
+ The little feet along the floor.
+
+
+
+
+GUIDE TO PRONUNCIATION
+
+
+The following key explains the symbols which are used in the vocabulary of
+"A Child's Garden of Verses," to indicate the pronunciation of the words.
+It is based upon the 1901 edition of Webster's International Dictionary.
+
+ [=a] as in f[=a]te.
+
+ [+a] as in pref' [+a]ce.
+
+ [)a] as in [)a]dd.
+
+ [:a] as in f[:a]r.
+
+ [.a] as in gr[.a]ss.
+
+ [a:] as in [a:]ll.
+
+
+ [=e] as in [=e]ve.
+
+ [+e] as in [+e]-vent'.
+
+ [)e] as in [)e]nd.
+
+ [~e] as in h[~e]r.
+
+
+ [=i] as in [=i]ce.
+
+ [)i] as in p[)i]n.
+
+
+ [=o] as in r[=o]w.
+
+ [+o] as in [+o]-bey'.
+
+ [)o] as in n[)o]t.
+
+ [^o] as in l[^o]rd.
+
+
+ [=u] as in [=u]se.
+
+ [+u] as in [+u]-nite'.
+
+ [)u] as in [)u]p.
+
+ [^u] as in f[^u]rl.
+
+ [u:] as in r[u:]de.
+
+
+ [=y] as in fl[=y].
+
+ [)y] as in pit'[)y].
+
+
+ [=oo] as in m[=oo]n.
+
+ ou as in out.
+
+ oi as in oil.
+
+ [n=] = ng as in i[n=]k.
+
+ th as in this.
+
+Certain vowels, as _a_ and _e_, when obscured, are italicized.
+
+
+
+
+A WORD LIST
+
+
+The definitions given in this list indicate the meanings of the words as
+used in "A Child's Garden of Verses."
+
+_adorned_ ([.a] dornd'). Made beautiful.
+
+_adventure_ ([)a]d v[)e]n' t[+u]r). Venture; go in search of exciting
+experiences.
+
+_alert_ ([.a] l[~e]rt'). Watchful; quick.
+
+_anchored_ ([)a]n' k[~e]rd). Held safely.
+
+_ancient_ ([=a]n' shent). Earlier; old.
+
+_apes_ ([=a]ps). Animals similar to monkeys, but of a higher type.
+
+_appareled_ ([)a]p p[)a]r' [)e]ld). Dressed; clothed.
+
+_arrant_ ([)a]r' rant). Shameless.
+
+
+_Babylon_ (B[)a]b' [)y] lon). A celebrated city of Asia, now in ruins.
+
+_balusters_ (b[)a]l' [)u]s t[~e]rz). The rail which guards the side of a
+staircase.
+
+_bazaar_ (b[.a] zar'). In the far East, a market place where goods are for
+sale.
+
+_bewildering_ (b[+e] w[)i]l' d'r[)i]ng). Excitement; embarrassment.
+
+_billows_ (b[)i]l' l[=o]z). Great waves.
+
+_Bogie_ (b[=o]' g[)y]). Goblin; bugbear.
+
+_breach_ (br[=e]ch). Break; opening.
+
+_broom_ (br[=oo]m). A plant from the twigs of which brooms are made.
+
+
+_caravan_ (k[)a]r' [.a] v[)a]n). A large company traveling together.
+
+_cockatoos_ (k[)o]k' [.a] t[=oo]z'). A bird of the parrot family.
+
+_counterpane_ (koun' t[~e]r p[=a]n'). A coverlet for a bed.
+
+_crocodile_ (kr[)o]k' [.=o] d[=i]l). A reptile which grows to the length
+of 16 or 18 feet, and lives in the large rivers of Africa, Asia, and
+America.
+
+_Crow_ (kr[=o]). The name of a tribe of Indians.
+
+_Crusoes_ (kr[u:]'s[=o]z). Men like the hero of De Foe's great novel,
+"Robinson Crusoe."
+
+_curious_ (k[=u]' r[)i] [)u]s). Strange.
+
+
+_dale_ (d[=a]l). Valley.
+
+_deserted_ (d[+e] z[~e]rt' [)e]d). Forsaken; abandoned.
+
+_diet_ (d[=i]' [)e]t). Food.
+
+_Dog_ (d[)o]g). One of the two ancient constellations lying south of the
+zodiac, known as Canis Major and Canis Minor, or the Greater Dog and the
+Lesser Dog.
+
+
+_Egyptian_ ([+e] j[)i]p' shan). A native of Egypt.
+
+_emperors_ ([)e]m' p[~e]r [~e]rz). The rulers of empires.
+
+_estate_ ([)e]s t[=a]t'). Condition; state.
+
+
+_flamingo_ (fl[.a] m[)i][n=]' g[+o]). A large bird, usually red or pink in
+color.
+
+_foreign_ (f[)o]r' [)i]n). Strange; distant.
+
+
+_gabies_ (g[=a]' b[)i]z). Simpletons; dunces.
+
+_Great Wall_ (gr[=a]t w[a:]l). Fifteen hundred miles in length, built in
+215 B. C., along the north frontier of China. It is the most gigantic work
+of defense ever made by man.
+
+_Grenadier_ (gr[)e]n' [.a] d[=e]r'). One of a company attached to each
+regiment, taking post on the right of the line, and wearing a peculiar
+uniform.
+
+
+_harbor_ (har' b[~e]r). Station for rest and safety.
+
+_haunted_ (hant' [)e]d). Frequented by ghosts.
+
+_hearty_ (hart' [)y]). Bold; active.
+
+_Highland bonnet_ (h[=i]' land b[)o]n' n[)e]t). A closely woven, seamless
+wool cap worn by the Highland Scotchman.
+
+_Hunter_ (h[)u]nt' [~e]r). A constellation representing a centaur (a
+monster, half man and half horse) drawing a bow. It is called the Archer.
+
+
+_increases_ ([)i]n kr[=e]s' [)e]z). Grows.
+
+
+_jungles_ (j[)u][n=]' g'lz). Heavy growths of brushwood, grasses and
+vines, so dense as to hardly be penetrated.
+
+
+_lea_ (l[=e]). A grassy field.
+
+_leaden_ (l[)e]' 'n). Made of lead.
+
+_Leerie_ (l[+e]r' [)i]). The lamplighter.
+
+_Malabar_ (m[)a]l' a bar'). A district in British India.
+
+_man-devouring_ (m[)a]n'-d[+e] vour' [)i]ng). Man-eating.
+
+_Mars_ (marz). One of the planets of the solar system. It gives a very red
+light.
+
+_marten_ (mar' t[)e]n). One of several species of swallows.
+
+_martial_ (mar' shal). Military; warlike; brave.
+
+_marvelous_ (mar' v[)e]l [)u]s). Wonderful; strange.
+
+_minaret_ (m[)i]n' [.a] r[)e]t). A high, slender tower attached to a
+mosque.
+
+_moil_ (moil). Labor; toil.
+
+_mosque_ (m[)o]sk). A Mohammedan church or place of religious worship.
+
+
+_notion_ (n[=o]' sh[)u]n). An idea.
+
+_nursery_ (nurs' [~e]r [)y]). The children's room.
+
+
+_palanquin_ (p[)a]l a[n=] k[+e]n'). An enclosed carriage about four feet
+long, carried on the shoulders of four men by means of two long poles. It
+is used in India and China.
+
+_perils_ (p[)e]r' [)i]lz). Dangers.
+
+_pier_ (p[=e]r). Landing place.
+
+_pillage_ (p[)i]l' l[+a]j). Plunder; that which is taken from another by
+force.
+
+_pirate_ (p[=i]' r[+a]t). A robber on the high seas.
+
+_Plough_ (plou). The group of stars commonly called the Dipper.
+
+_prudent_ (pr[u:]' dent). Cautious; careful; sensible.
+
+_pursue_ (pur s[=u]'). Follow; chase.
+
+
+_quays_ (k[=e]z). Wharfs; landing places.
+
+
+_rear_ (r[=e]r). The division of an army that marches behind the main body
+to protect it.
+
+
+_sages_ (s[=a]j' [)e]z). Wise men.
+
+_scythe_ (sith). An instrument for mowing grass and grain.
+
+_sedately_ (s[+e] d[=a]t' l[)y]). Calmly; quietly.
+
+_Sioux_ (s[=oo]). Certain tribes of Indians.
+
+_sire_ (s[=i]r). Father; the head of the family.
+
+_sleepsin-by_ (sl[=e]p' | s[)i]n-b[)y]'). The land of sleep.
+
+_sluice_ (sl[=u]s). A passage made for water to pass through, fitted with
+a gate.
+
+_squadron_ (skw[)o]d' r[)u]n). A number of vessels under command of one
+officer.
+
+_star of the sailor_. The North Star.
+
+_sweep_ (sw[=e]p). As found in "Travel," meaning chimney-sweep.
+
+
+_trundle_ (tr[)u]n' d'l). Roll along.
+
+
+_undaunted_ ([)u]n d[=a]nt' [)e]d). Fearless; brave.
+
+_unduly_ ([)u]n d[=u]' l[)y]). In an extreme manner.
+
+_uniform_ ([=u]' n[)i] form). Soldier's dress.
+
+
+_wary_ (w[=a]' r[)y]). Carefully watching; cautious.
+
+_wearied_ (w[=e]' r[)i]d). Grown tired.
+
+_weir_ (w[=e]r). A dam in a river used to raise the water back of it.
+
+
+[Illustration: THE END]
+
+
+
+
+
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