Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850–1894). A Child’s Garden of Verses and Underwoods. 1913.
9. Foreign Lands
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Who should climb but little me?
I held the trunk with both my hands
And looked abroad on foreign lands.
Adorned with flowers, before my eye,
And many pleasant places more
That I had never seen before.
Farther and farther I should see,
To where the grown-up river slips
Into the sea among the ships.
Lead onward into fairy land,
Where all the children dine at five,
And all the playthings come alive.