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[Illustration: A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES]

[Illustration: ROBERT LOVIS STEVENSON]

  EDINBVRGH.   VAILIMA
  1850                                                                1894

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  A CHILD'S
  GARDEN OF
  VERSES


  BY ROBERT
  LOVIS
  STEVENSON

  ILLVSTRATED--BY
  CHARLES
  ROBINSON.

  NEW YORK:
  CHARLES SCRIBNER'S
  SONS

  LONDON:
  IOHN LANE.

  1895

  _Copyright 1895, by Charles Scribner's Sons_

_All rights reserved_

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  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,
