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Title: A Child's Garden of Verses
Verse 142
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator: Jessie Willcox Smith
Release Date: May 26, 2008 [EBook #25609]
Language: English
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_A
Child's
Garden
of Verses_
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
_Illustrated by
Jessie Willcox Smith_
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, _New York_
Copyright, 1905, By CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
Printed in the United States of America
All rights reserved. No part of this book
may be reproduced in any form without the
permission of Charles Scribner's Sons
DD-3.64[H]
Reset March 1955
[Illustration]
TO ALISON CUNNINGHAM
FROM HER BOY
_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