Oct-14-2010, 02:41 PM (UTC)
(Oct-14-2010, 12:31 PM (UTC))Atthis Wrote: by Robert Louis Stevenson
An illustrated version of 'A Child's Garden of Verses' by Robert Louis Stevenson *sigh* ...my most favourite of childhood gifts that I still have on my bookshelf...
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.
*drowning in the memories*
I have 'Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' and 'Treasure Island' there as well !
"I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves."