Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.
Poems of Home: II. For ChildrenA Good Play
Robert Louis Stevenson (18501894)W
All made of the back-bedroom chairs,
And filled it full of sofa pillows
To go a-sailing on the billows.
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.
And had the very best of plays;
But Tom fell out and hurt his knee,
So there was no one left but me.