Robert Louis Stevenson · A Child's Garden of Verses

“When I was sick and lay a-bed,”

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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 soI watched my leaden soldiers go,With different uniforms and drills,Among the bed-clothes, through the hills;And sometimes sent my ships in fleetsAll up and down among the sheets;Or brought my trees and houses out,And planted cities all about.I was the giant great and stillThat sits upon the pillow-hill,And sees before him, dale and plain,The pleasant land of counterpane.
Robert Louis StevensonA Child's Garden of Verses, 1885 · The Land of Counterpane
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Author
Robert Louis Stevenson
Work
A Child's Garden of Verses
Year
1885
Chapter / part
The Land of Counterpane
Length
102 words
Source
Project Gutenberg eBook #136

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