Subject:  MSR A Child's Garden of Verses
Author:  Robert Louis Stevenson
Uploaded By:  HOST Comp Joots
Date:  11/3/2002

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A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson was uploaded in memory of Linda Potter, Children's Librarian at the Stow-Munroe Falls Public Library. Her love of books and stories inspired countless chldren to become avid readers.

A Child's Garden of Verses

by

Robert Louis Stevenson


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 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.