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  _A
  Child's
  Garden
  of Verses_

  ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

  _Illustrated by
  Jessie Willcox Smith_

  CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, _New York_




  Copyright, 1905, By CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

  Printed in the United States of America

  All rights reserved. No part of this book
  may be reproduced in any form without the
  permission of Charles Scribner's Sons

  DD-3.64[H]

  Reset March 1955

[Illustration]




TO ALISON CUNNINGHAM

FROM HER BOY

    _For the long nights you lay awake_
    _And watched for my unworthy sake:_
    _For your most comfortable hand_
    _That led me through the uneven land:_
    _For all the story-books you read:_
    _For all the pains you comforted:_

    _For all you pitied, all you bore,_
    _In sad and happy days of yore:--_
    _My second Mother, my first Wife,_
    _The angel of my infant life--_
    _From the sick child,