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Title: A Child's Garden of Verses
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator: E. Mars
Maud Hunt Squire
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Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson, or Robert Louis Stevenson, as the world
knows him, was still a boy when he published this rare volume of "A
Child's Garden of Verses," although by the calendar he was thirty-five
years old. You and I have sighed, no doubt, to be a boy again, but here
was one who, while he outgrew his knickerbockers, never outgrew the quick
sympathy, the brave heart, the fresh outlook, the confident faith and
buoyant spirit of the little Scotch boy who roamed the hills 'round
Edinburgh. Better than any man of any time he was able to enter into the
heart of a boy, to view things with a boy's eyes, and to write of them in
simple verse, touched with the warmth and color of his rich imagination.
In these "Verses" he writes as a child rather than about children, and in
this lies much of the charm which they possess for little readers. There
is in them the surprise of reality, the beauty of a simple rhythm, and the
mysterious flavor of magic that grips a boy's heart and will not let him
go until the book has become a part of him. Surely this is a rare quality
in schoolbooks.
The Stevensons had been famous engineers for more than a hundred years,
building lighthouses along the Scottish coast, and it was natural that his
father should have expected Robert Louis to follow in the family
footsteps. But the slim boy with brown eyes, who at eight had written a
"History of Moses," and illustrated it with his own pen; who was slow to
learn from books, but quick to understand things that he saw and felt; the
boy who carried a volume of history in one pocket and a notebook in
another, had other plans for himself, and even his father came to see the
wisdom of his son's choice of a literary life. As early as[Pg 6] 1873, when
only twenty-three years old, Stevenson was ordered south for the winter by
his physician, to ward off impending consumption. For more than twenty
years, or until his death in Samoa late in 1894, he was never far from
this pursuing enemy. It followed him over tossing seas and through many
lands as he journeyed in search of health; yet through all these years he
carried a brave and happy heart, and wrote at the end this Requiem, the
last three lines of which are upon his tomb on the mountain-top in Samoa;
"Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. "This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill."
Robert Louis Stevenson's first book, "An Inland Voyage," was published in
1878, when he was twenty-eight years old, and is a fresh and charming
account of a canoe trip up the rivers of Holland. It was during this
journey that he wrote: "If we were charged so much a head for sunsets, or
if God sent around a drum before the hawthorn came into flower, what a
work we should make about their beauty! But these things, like good
companions, stupid people early cease to observe."
The next year came his "Travels With a Donkey," which told in the same
naïve style the story of his journey through the Cevennes Mountains with
no other companion than a donkey, whose gait he describes as being "As
much slower than a walk as a walk is slower than a run."
He first visited America in 1879, in search of health, returning in 1880
to Scotland with Mrs. Stevenson, whom he had married in California. In
1887 he came again with the hope that a dry winter in the Adirondack
Mountains would stand off the hand of[Pg 7] Death. But he was little benefited,
and took up his search for health by chartering a yacht for a voyage
through the South Seas. It was on this trip that he fell in love with the
beauty of the scenery and the healthful climate of Samoa, and in 1890 he
took up his home there, never again to leave the island except for
occasional visits to Honolulu and Sydney. And when the time came for him
to die, the natives, with their knives and axes cut a path up the steep
mountain-side and carried him on their broad shoulders to his grave on the
mountain-top.
"A Child's Garden of Verses" was first published in London in 1885, and
long ago became a children's classic; yet it is now for the first time
made available as a supplementary reader for the primary grades in a
suitable form and at a possible price. There have been many and beautiful
editions, but they have all appealed to "grown-ups" rather than to boys
and girls to whom the book really belongs. To put such a book, with its
simple style, its wise observations, its kindly sympathy, and fanciful
humor into the hands of a boy or girl, is not only to make him happy, it
is to start him on the straight path to culture.
This volume contains all the poems originally appearing under the title "A
Child's Garden of Verses." The poems grouped under "The Child Alone,"
"Garden Days," and "Envoys" have been omitted, as many of them are too
philosophical to be understood by children in the primary grades.
The illustrations in this book are used by special arrangement with Harper
& Brothers of New York City, who publish the complete "Verses" in a
beautiful edition suitable for the home or the library.
So with Stevenson's own words the book is yours:
"Go little book, and wish to all, Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall, A living river by the door, A nightingale in the sycamore."
For the long nights you lay awake And watched for my unworthy sake: For your most comfortable hand That led me through the uneven land: For all the story-books you read: For all the pains you comforted: For all you pitied, all you bore, In sad and happy days of yore:— My second Mother, my first Wife, The angel of my infant life— From the sick child, now well and old, Take, nurse, the little book you hold!
And grant it, Heaven, that all who read May find as dear a nurse at need, And every child who lists my rhyme, In the bright, fireside, nursery clime, May hear it in as kind a voice As made my childish days rejoice!
I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see, He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head; And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed.
The funniest thing about him is the way he likes to grow— Not at all like proper children, which is always very slow; For he sometimes shoots up taller like an india-rubber ball, And he sometimes gets so little that there's none of him at all.
He hasn't got a notion of how children ought to play, And can only make a fool of me in every sort of way. 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!
One morning, very early, before the sun was up, I rose and found the shining dew on every buttercup; But my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head, Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.
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.
Whenever the moon and stars are set, Whenever the wind is high, All night long in the dark and wet, A man goes riding by. Late in the night when the fires are out, Why does he gallop and gallop about? [Pg 23]
Whenever the trees are crying aloud, And ships are tossed at sea, By, on the highway, low and loud, By at the gallop goes he. By at the gallop he goes, and then By he comes back at the gallop again.
Three of us afloat in the meadow by the swing. Three of us aboard in the basket on the lea. Winds are in the air, they are blowing in the spring. And waves are on the meadow like the waves there are at sea.
Where shall we adventure, to-day that we're afloat, Wary of the weather and steering by a star? Shall it be to Africa, a-steering of the boat, To Providence, or Babylon, or off to Malabar?
Hi! but here's a squadron a-rowing on the sea— Cattle on the meadow a-charging with a roar! Quick, and we'll escape them, they're as mad as they can be. The wicket is the harbor and the garden is the shore.
We built a ship upon the stairs, All made of the back-bedroom chairs, And filled it full of sofa pillows To go a-sailing on the billows.
We took a saw and several nails, And water in the nursery pails; And Tom said, "Let us also take An apple and a slice of cake";— Which was enough for Tom and me To go a-sailing on, till tea.
We sailed along for days and days, And had the very best of plays; But Tom fell out and hurt his knee, So there was no one left but me.
I should like to rise and go Where the golden apples grow;— Where below another sky Parrot islands anchored lie, And, watched by cockatoos and goats, Lonely Crusoes building boats;— Where in sunshine reaching out Eastern cities, miles about, Are with mosque and minaret Among sandy gardens set, And the rich goods from near and far Hang for sale in the bazaar;— Where the Great Wall round China goes, And on one side the desert blows, And with bell and voice and drum, Cities on the other hum;—
Where are forests, hot as fire, Wide as England, tall as a spire, Full of apes and cocoa-nuts And the negro hunters' huts;— Where the knotty crocodile Lies and blinks in the Nile, And the red flamingo flies Hunting fish before his eyes;— Where in jungles, near and far, Man-devouring tigers are, Lying close and giving ear Lest the hunt be drawing near, Or a comer-by be seen Swinging in a palanquin;— Where among the desert sands Some deserted city stands, All its children, sweep and prince, Grown to manhood ages since, Not a foot in street or house, Not a stir of child or mouse, And when kindly falls the night, [Pg 45]In all the town no spark of light. There I'll come when I'm a man With a camel caravan; Light a fire in the gloom Of some dusty dining room; See the pictures on the walls, Heroes, fights and festivals; And in a corner find the toys Of the old Egyptian boys.
The lights from the parlor and kitchen shone out Through the blinds and the windows and bars; And high overhead and all moving about, There were thousands of millions of stars. There ne'er were such thousands of leaves on a tree, Nor of people in church or the Park, As the crowds of the stars that looked down upon me, And that glistened and winked in the dark. [Pg 49]
The Dog, and the Plough, and the Hunter, and all, And the star of the sailor, and Mars, These shown in the sky, and the pail by the wall Would be half full of water and stars. They saw me at last, and they chased me with cries, And they soon had me packed into bed; But the glory kept shining and bright in my eyes, And the stars going round in my head.
Faster than fairies, faster than witches, Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches, And charging along like troops in a battle, All through the meadows the horses and cattle: All of the sights of the hill and the plain Fly as thick as driving rain; And ever again, in the wink of an eye, Painted stations whistle by. [Pg 51]
Here is a child who clambers and scrambles,— All by himself and gathering brambles; Here is a tramp who stands and gazes; And there is the green for stringing the daisies! Here is a cart run away in the road Lumping along with man and load; And here is a mill and there is a river: Each a glimpse and gone for ever!
I saw you toss the kites on high And blow the birds about the sky; And all around I heard you pass, Like ladies' skirts across the grass— O wind, a-blowing all day long! O wind, that sings so loud a song!
I saw the different things you did, But always you yourself you hid. I felt you push, I heard you call, I could not see yourself at all— O wind, a-blowing all day long, O wind, that sings so loud a song!
O you that are so strong and cold, O blower, are you young or old? Are you a beast of field and tree, Or just a stronger child than me? O wind, a-blowing all day long, O wind, that sings so loud a song!
Come up here, O dusty feet! Here is fairy bread to eat Here in my retiring room, Children, you may dine On the golden smell of broom And the shade of pine; And when you have eaten well, Fairy stories hear and tell.
Over the borders, a sin without pardon, Breaking the branches and crawling below, Out through the breach in the wall of the garden, Down by the banks of the river, we go.
Here is the mill with the humming of thunder, Here is the weir with the wonder of foam, Here is the sluice with the race running under— Marvelous places, though handy to home!
Sounds of the village grow stiller and stiller, Stiller the note of the birds on the hill; Dusty and dim are the eyes of the miller, Deaf are his ears with the moil of the mill. [Pg 63]
Years may go by, and the wheel in the river Wheel as it wheels for us, children, to-day, Wheel and keep roaring and foaming for ever— Long after all the boys are away.
Home from the Indies and home from the ocean, Heroes and soldiers we all shall come home; Still we shall find the old mill wheel in motion, Turning and churning that river to foam.
You with the bean that I gave when we quarreled, I with your marble of Saturday last, Honored and old and all gaily appareled, Here we shall meet and remember the past.
My tea is nearly ready and the sun has left the sky; It's time to take the window to see Leerie going by; For every night at teatime and before you take your seat, With lantern and with ladder he comes posting up the street. [Pg 71]
Now Tom would be a driver and Maria go to sea, And my papa's a banker and as rich as he can be; But I, when I am stronger and can choose what I'm to do, O Leerie, I'll go round at night and light the lamps with you!
For we are very lucky, with a lamp before the door, And Leerie stops to light it as he lights so many more; And O, before you hurry by with ladder and with light, O Leerie, see a little child and nod to him to-night!
The moon has a face like the clock in the hall; She shines on thieves on the garden wall, On streets and fields and harbor quays, And birdies asleep in the forks of the trees.
The squalling cat and the squeaking mouse, The howling dog by the door of the house, The bat that lies in bed at noon, All love to be out by the light of the moon.
But all of the things that belong to the day Cuddle to sleep to be out of her way; And flowers and children close their eyes Till up in the morning the sun shall arise.
All round the house is the jet-black night; It stares through the window-pane; It crawls in the corners, hiding from the light, And it moves with the moving flame. [Pg 85]
Now my little heart goes a-beating like a drum, With the breath of Bogie in my hair, And all round the candle the crooked shadows come, And go marching along up the stair.
The shadow of the balusters, the shadow of the lamp, The shadow of the child that goes to bed— All the wicked shadows coming, tramp, tramp, tramp, With the black night overhead.
The following key explains the symbols which are used in the vocabulary of
"A Child's Garden of Verses," to indicate the pronunciation of the words.
It is based upon the 1901 edition of Webster's International Dictionary.
ā
as in fāte.
ŏ
as in nŏt.
ā̍
as in pref´ ā̍ce.
ô
as in lôrd.
ă
as in ădd.
ä
as in fär.
ū
as in ūse.
ȧ
as in grȧss.
ū̍
as in ū̍-nite´.
a̤
as in a̤ll.
ŭ
as in ŭp.
û
as in fûrl.
ē
as in ēve.
ṳ
as in rṳde.
ē̍
as in ē̍-vent´.
ĕ
as in ĕnd.
ȳ
as in flȳ.
ẽ
as in hẽr.
y̆
as in pit´y̆.
ī
as in īce.
o̅o
as in mo̅on.
ĭ
as in pĭn.
ou
as in out.
oi
as in oil.
ō
as in rōw.
ṉ = ng
as in iṉk.
ō̍
as in ō̍-bey´.
th
as in this.
Certain vowels, as a and e, when obscured, are italicized.
broom (bro̅om). A plant from the twigs of which brooms are made.
caravan (kăr´ ȧ văn). A large company traveling together.
cockatoos (kŏk´ ȧ to̅oz´). A bird of the parrot family.
counterpane (koun´ tẽr pān´). A coverlet for a bed.
crocodile (krŏk´ ō̍ dīl). A reptile which grows to the length of 16 or 18
feet, and lives in the large rivers of Africa, Asia, and America.
Crow (krō). The name of a tribe of Indians. [Pg 91] Crusoes (krṳ´sōz). Men like the hero of De Foe's great novel, "Robinson Crusoe."
curious (kū´ rĭ ŭs). Strange.
dale (dāl). Valley.
deserted (dē̍ zẽrt´ ĕd). Forsaken; abandoned.
diet (dī´ ĕt). Food.
Dog (dŏg). One of the two ancient constellations lying south of the
zodiac, known as Canis Major and Canis Minor, or the Greater Dog
and the Lesser Dog.
Egyptian (ē̍ jĭp´ shan). A native of Egypt.
emperors (ĕm´ pẽr ẽrz). The rulers of empires.
estate (ĕs tāt´). Condition; state.
flamingo (flȧ mĭṉ´ gō̍). A large bird, usually red or pink in color.
foreign (fŏr´ ĭn). Strange; distant.
gabies (gā´ bĭz). Simpletons; dunces.
Great Wall (grāt wa̤l). Fifteen hundred miles in length, built in 215 b. c.,
along the north frontier of China. It is the most gigantic work of
defense ever made by man.
Grenadier (grĕn´ ȧ dēr´). One of a company attached to each regiment,
taking post on the right of the line, and wearing a peculiar uniform.
harbor (här´ bẽr). Station for rest and safety.
haunted (hänt´ ĕd). Frequented by ghosts.
hearty (härt´ y̆). Bold; active.
Highland bonnet (hī´ land bŏn´ nĕt). A closely woven, seamless wool
cap worn by the Highland Scotchman.
Hunter (hŭnt´ ẽr). A constellation representing a centaur (a monster,
half man and half horse) drawing a bow. It is called the Archer.
increases (ĭn krēs´ ĕz). Grows.
jungles (jŭṉ´ g'lz). Heavy growths of brushwood, grasses and vines,
so dense as to hardly be penetrated. [Pg 92]
lea (lē). A grassy field.
leaden (lĕ´ 'n). Made of lead.
Leerie (lē̍r´ ĭ). The lamplighter.
Malabar (măl´ a bär´). A district in British India.
man-devouring (măn´-dē̍ vour´ ĭng). Man-eating.
Mars (märz). One of the planets of the solar system. It gives a very
red light.
marten (mär´ tĕn). One of several species of swallows.
martial (mär´ shal). Military; warlike; brave.
marvelous (mär´ vĕl ŭs). Wonderful; strange.
minaret (mĭn´ ȧ rĕt). A high, slender tower attached to a mosque.
moil (moil). Labor; toil.
mosque (mŏsk). A Mohammedan church or place of religious worship.
notion (nō´ shŭn). An idea.
nursery (nûrs´ ẽr y̆). The children's room.
palanquin (păl aṉ kē̍n´). An enclosed carriage about four feet long,
carried on the shoulders of four men by means of two long poles.
It is used in India and China.
perils (pĕr´ ĭlz). Dangers.
pier (pēr). Landing place.
pillage (pĭl´ lā̍j). Plunder; that which is taken from another by force.
pirate (pī´ rā̍t). A robber on the high seas.
Plough (plou). The group of stars commonly called the Dipper.
prudent (prṳ´ dent). Cautious; careful; sensible.
pursue (pûr sū´). Follow; chase.
quays (kēz). Wharfs; landing places.
rear (rēr). The division of an army that marches behind the main body
to protect it.
sages (sāj´ ĕz). Wise men.
scythe (sïth). An instrument for mowing grass and grain.
sedately (sē̍ dāt´ ly̆). Calmly; quietly. [Pg 93] Sioux (so̅o). Certain tribes of Indians.
sire (sīr). Father; the head of the family.
sleepsin-by (slēp´ ¦ sĭn-by̆´). The land of sleep.
sluice (slūs). A passage made for water to pass through, fitted with a
gate.
squadron (skwŏd´ rŭn). A number of vessels under command of one
officer.
star of the sailor. The North Star.
sweep (swēp). As found in "Travel," meaning chimney-sweep.
trundle (trŭn´ d'l). Roll along.
undaunted (ŭn dānt´ ĕd). Fearless; brave.
unduly (ŭn dū´ ly̆). In an extreme manner.
uniform (ū´ nĭ fôrm). Soldier's dress.
wary (wā´ ry̆). Carefully watching; cautious.
wearied (wē´ rĭd). Grown tired.
weir (wēr). A dam in a river used to raise the water back of it.
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A Child's Garden
LOUIS
E. MARS
CHICAGO
LONDON
Made in U.S.A.
"I have to go to bed by day."
"So fine a show was never seen."
"I have a little shadow."
"Three of us afloat."
"I looked abroad on foreign lands."
"I get an orange after food."
"I was happy all the day."
"Marching double-quick."
"Where the red flamingo flies."
"Boats of mine a-boating."
"I felt you push, I heard you call."
"She walks among the meadow grass."
"The cold wind burns my face."
"We can see our colored faces."
"Don't you wish that you were me?"
"She shines on thieves on the garden wall."
"O what a place for play."
"Good-bye, good-bye, to everything!"
"The wicked shadows coming, tramp, tramp, tramp."
"In the Land of Nod at last."
THE END