Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume I. Of Home: of Friendship. 1904. | | | | Poems of Home: II. For Children | | A Good Play | | Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) |
| | | WE built a ship upon the stairs | |
| All made of the back-bedroom chairs, | |
| And filled it full of sofa pillows | |
| To go a-sailing on the billows. | |
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| We took a saw and several nails, | 5 |
| 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. | 10 |
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| We sailed along for days and days, | |
| And had the very best of plays; | |
| But Tom fell out and hurt his knee, | |
| So there was no one left but me. | | | | |
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