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A Child’s Garden of Verses
“Picture-Books in Winter”
Robert Louis Stevenson

 

 Summer fading, winter comes—
 Frosty mornings, tingling thumbs,
 Window robins, winter rooks,
 And the picture story-books.
 
 Water now is turned to stone
 Nurse and I can walk upon;
 Still we find the flowing brooks
 In the picture story-books.
 
 All the pretty things put by,
 Wait upon the children’s eye,
 Sheep and shepherds, trees and crooks,
 In the picture story-books.
 
 We may see how all things are
 Seas and cities, near and far,
 And the flying fairies’ looks,
 In the picture story-books.
 
 How am I to sing your praise,
 Happy chimney-corner days,
 Sitting safe in nursery nooks,
 Reading picture story-books?

 

 

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