Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850–1894). A Child’s Garden of Verses and Underwoods. 1913.
2. Bed in Summer
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And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer, quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.
The birds still hopping on the tree,
Or hear the grown-up people’s feet
Still going past me in the street.
When all the sky is clear and blue,
And I should like so much to play,
To have to go to bed by day?