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“My Bed is a Boat”
Robert Louis Stevenson
 My bed is like a little boat;
      Nurse helps me in when I embark;
 She girds me in my sailor’s coat
      And starts me in the dark.
 
 At night I go on board and say
      Good-night to all my friends on shore; 
 I shut my eyes and sail away
      And see and hear no more.
 
 And sometimes things to bed I take,
      As prudent sailors have to do;
 Perhaps a slice of wedding-cake,
      Perhaps a toy or two.
 
 All night across the dark we steer;
      But when the day returns at last,
 Safe in my room beside the pier,
      I find my vessel fast.
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