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Published by Good Press, 2022

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EAN 4057664134080

ILLUSTRATIONS

BED IN SUMMER

A THOUGHT

AT THE SEA-SIDE

YOUNG NIGHT-THOUGHT

WHOLE DUTY OF CHILDREN

RAIN

PIRATE STORY

FOREIGN LANDS

WINDY NIGHTS

TRAVEL

SINGING

LOOKING FORWARD

A GOOD PLAY

WHERE GO THE BOATS?

AUNTIE'S SKIRTS

THE LAND OF COUNTERPANE

THE LAND OF NOD

MY SHADOW

SYSTEM

A GOOD BOY

ESCAPE AT BEDTIME

MARCHING SONG

THE COW

HAPPY THOUGHT

THE WIND

KEEPSAKE MILL

GOOD AND BAD CHILDREN

FOREIGN CHILDREN

THE SUN TRAVELS

THE LAMPLIGHTER

MY BED IS A BOAT

THE MOON

THE SWING

TIME TO RISE

LOOKING-GLASS RIVER

FAIRY BREAD

FROM A RAILWAY CARRIAGE

WINTER-TIME

THE HAYLOFT

FAREWELL TO THE FARM

NORTH-WEST PASSAGE

THE CHILD ALONE

THE UNSEEN PLAYMATE

MY SHIP AND I

MY KINGDOM

PICTURE-BOOKS IN WINTER

MY TREASURES

BLOCK CITY

THE LAND OF STORY-BOOKS

ARMIES IN THE FIRE

THE LITTLE LAND

GARDEN DAYS

NIGHT AND DAY

NEST EGGS

THE FLOWERS

SUMMER SUN

THE DUMB SOLDIER

AUTUMN FIRES

THE GARDENER

HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS

ENVOYS

TO WILLIE AND HENRIETTA

TO MY MOTHER

TO AUNTIE

TO MINNIE

TO MY NAME-CHILD

TO ANY READER

THE SCRIBNER ILLUSTRATED CLASSICS

ILLUSTRATIONS

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FROM DRAWINGS IN COLOR
BY JESSIE WILLCOX SMITH

		FACING PAGE
Bed in Summer		4
	In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light.
Foreign Lands		10
	I held the trunk with both my hands And looked abroad on foreign lands.
The Land of Counterpane		18
	I was the giant great and still That sits upon the pillow-hill,
My Shadow		20
	He stays so close beside me, he's a coward you can see; I'd think shame to stick to nursie as that shadow sticks to me!
Foreign Children		34
	Little Indian, Sioux or Crow, Little frosty Eskimo, Little Turk or Japanee, Oh! don't you wish that you were me?
Looking-glass River		42
	We can see our coloured faces Floating on the shaken pool

The Hayloft		48
	Oh, what a joy to clamber there, Oh, what a place for play, With the sweet, the dim, the dusty air, The happy hills of hay!
North-west Passage		50
	And face with an undaunted tread The long black passage up to bed.
Picture-books in Winter		64
	Water now is turned to stone Nurse and I can walk upon; Still we find the flowing brooks In the picture story-books.
The Little Land		74
	I have just to shut my eyes To go sailing through the skies— To go sailing far away To the pleasant Land of Play;
The Flowers		84
	All the names I know from nurse: Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse, Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock, And the Lady Hollyhock.
To Auntie		100
	What did the other children do? And what were childhood, wanting you?

A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES

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BED IN SUMMER

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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?

Mary

Hans

A THOUGHT

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It is very nice to think
The world is full of meat and drink,
With little children saying grace
In every Christian kind of place.

Biddy

Fifine

BED IN SUMMER

AT THE SEA-SIDE

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When I was down beside the sea
A wooden spade they gave to me
To dig the sandy shore.

My holes were empty like a cup.
In every hole the sea came up,
Till it could come no more.

YOUNG NIGHT-THOUGHT

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All night long and every night,
When my mama puts out the light,
I see the people marching by,
As plain as day, before my eye.

Armies and emperors and kings,
All carrying different kinds of things,
And marching in so grand a way,
You never saw the like by day.

So fine a show was never seen
At the great circus on the green;
For every kind of beast and man
Is marching in that caravan.

At first they move a little slow,
But still the faster on they go,
And still beside them close I keep
Until we reach the town of Sleep.

WHOLE DUTY OF CHILDREN

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A child should always say what's true
And speak when he is spoken to,
And behave mannerly at table;
At least as far as he is able.

RAIN

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The rain is raining all around,
It falls on field and tree,
It rains on the umbrellas here,

A Child's Garden of Verses

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ILLUSTRATIONS

A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES

BED IN SUMMER

A THOUGHT

AT THE SEA-SIDE

YOUNG NIGHT-THOUGHT

WHOLE DUTY OF CHILDREN

RAIN