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Children, you are very little,
And your bones are very brittle.
A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)
In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.
A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)
A child should always say what's true
And speak when he is spoken to,
And behave mannerly at table;
At least as far as he is able.
A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)
The world is so full of a number of things,
I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)
The friendly cow all red and white,
I love with all my heart:
She gives me cream with all her might,
To eat with apple-tart.
A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)
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?
A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)
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.
A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)