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A Child’s Garden of Verses
“Bed in Summer”
Robert Louis Stevenson

 

A bed
 In winter I get up at night
 And dress by yellow candle-light.
 In summer quite the other way,
 I have to go to bed by day.
 
 I have to go to bed and see
 The birds still hopping on the tree,
 Or hear the grown-up people’s feet
 Still going past me in the street.
 
 And does it not seem hard to you,
 When all the sky is clear and blue,
 And I should like so much to play,
 To have to go to bed by day?

 

 
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