Child's Garden of Verses (Version 3)

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h1><span class="smcap">A CHILD'S<br/> GARDEN<br/> of VERSES</span></h1> <h3>By</h3> <h2>ROBERT LOUIS STEVENS</h2> <h2><SPAN name="BED_IN_SUMMER" id="BED_IN_SUMMER"></SPAN>BED IN SUMMER</h2> <div class="figright"> <ANTIMG src="images/image_009_1.jpg" width-obs="200" height-obs="229" alt="Illustration" /></div> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i4">In winter I get up at night,<br/></span> <span class="i4">And dress by yellow candle light.<br/></span> <span class="i4">In summer quite the other way,<br/></span> <span class="i4">I have to go to bed by day.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i4">I have to go to bed and see<br/></span> <span class="i4">The birds still hopping on the tree,<br/></span> <span class="i4">Or hear the grown-up people's feet,<br/></span> <span class="i4">Still going past me in the street.<br/></span></div> </div> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i4">And does it not seem hard to you,<br/></span> <span class="i4">When all the sky is clear and blue,<br/></span> <span class="i4">And I should like so much to play,<br/></span> <span class="i4">To have to go to bed by day?<br/></span></div> </div> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[11]</SPAN></span></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />