Child's Garden of Verses (Version 3)

<p class="f1" style="margin-left: 12em"><SPAN name="A_GOOD_PLAY" id="A_GOOD_PLAY"></SPAN><b>A GOOD PLAY</b></p> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i10">We built a ship upon the stairs<br/></span> <span class="i10">All made of the back-bedroom chairs,<br/></span> <span class="i10">And filled it full of sofa pillows<br/></span> <span class="i10">To go a-sailing on the billows.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i10">We took a saw and several nails,<br/></span> <span class="i10">And water in the nursery pails;<br/></span> <span class="i10">And Tom said, "Let us also take<br/></span> <span class="i10">An apple and a slice of cake;"&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i10">Which was enough for Tom and me<br/></span> <span class="i10">To go a-sailing on, till tea.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i10">We sailed along for days and days,<br/></span> <span class="i10">And had the very best of plays;<br/></span> <span class="i10">But Tom fell out and hurt his knee,<br/></span> <span class="i10">So there was no one left but me.<br/></span></div> </div> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[21]</SPAN></span></p> <div class="figleft"> <ANTIMG src="images/image_020_01.jpg" width-obs="600" height-obs="271" alt="Illustration" /></div> <div class="figleft"> <ANTIMG src="images/image_020_02.jpg" width-obs="222" height-obs="60" alt="Illustration" /></div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />