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.
Robert Louis Stevenson · A Child's Garden of Verses
Joy & wonder
“I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me,”
- Author
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Work
- A Child's Garden of Verses
- Year
- 1885
- Chapter / part
- My Shadow
- Length
- 52 words
- Source
- Project Gutenberg eBook #136
Public domain. This passage is in the public domain. Robert Louis Stevenson died in 1894, more than 70 years ago, and the work was first published in 1885. You can copy, print, read aloud or sell it without asking permission; a credit is kind but not required. The text is copied word for word from the Project Gutenberg edition linked here.
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It is very nice to thinkThe world is full of meat and drink,With little children saying graceIn every Christian kind of place.
O brave new worldThat has such people in ’t!
My heart leaps up when I beholdA rainbow in the sky:So was it when my life began;So is it now I am a man;So be it when I shall grow old,Or let me die!The Child is father of the Man;And I could wish my days to beBound each to each by natural piety.
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:The Soul that rises with us, our life’s Star,Hath had elsewhere its setting,And cometh from afar:Not in entire forgetfulness,And not in utter nakedness,But trailing clouds of glory do we comeFrom God, who is our home:
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