Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850–1894). A Child’s Garden of Verses and Underwoods. 1913.
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My fearful footsteps patter nigh,
And come from out the cold and gloom
Into my warm and cheerful room.
To keep the coming shadows out,
And close the happy door at last
On all the perils that we past.
She shall come in with tip-toe tread,
And see me lying warm and fast
And in the Land of Nod at last.