The Land of Storybooks

The Land of Storybooks

At evening when the lamp is lit, Around the fire my parents sit; They sit at home and talk and sing, And do not play at anything. Now, with my little gun, I crawl All in the dark along the wall, And follow round the forest track Away behind the sofa back. There, in...
A Good Boy at Heart

A Good Boy at Heart

A Good Boy By Robert Louis Stevenson “I woke before the morning, I was happy all the day, I never said an ugly word, but smiled and stuck to play.” Can a man be like a boy again? The boy’s business is to stick to play; my business is to stick to business. And still...
A Happy Thought

A Happy Thought

The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings. Robert Louis Stevenson, A Child’s Garden of Verses In my edition of A Child’s Garden of Verses, the illustration next to this short poem titled ‘Happy Thought’ is a...

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