Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850–1894). A Child’s Garden of Verses and Underwoods. 1913.
4. Picture-books in Winter
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Frosty mornings, tingling thumbs
Window robins, winter rooks,
And the picture story-books.
Nurse and I can walk upon;
Still we find the flowing brooks
In the picture story-books.
Wait upon the children’s eye,
Sheep and shepherds, trees and crooks,
In the picture story-books.
Seas and cities, near and far,
And the flying fairies’ looks,
In the pictyure story-books.
Happy chimney-corner days,
Sitting safe in nursery nooks,
Reading picture story-books?