Child's Garden of Verses (Version 3)

<h2><SPAN name="MY_BED_IS_A_BOAT" id="MY_BED_IS_A_BOAT"></SPAN>MY BED IS A BOAT</h2> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i12">My bed is like a little boat;<br/></span> <span class="i14">Nurse helps me in when I embark;<br/></span> <span class="i12">She girds me in my sailor's coat<br/></span> <span class="i14">And starts me in the dark.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i12">At night, I go on board and say<br/></span> <span class="i14">Good night to all my friends on shore;<br/></span> <span class="i12">I shut my eyes and sail away<br/></span> <span class="i14">And see and hear no more.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i12">And sometimes things to bed I take,<br/></span> <span class="i14">As prudent sailors have to do;<br/></span> <span class="i12">Perhaps a slice of wedding-cake,<br/></span> <span class="i14">Perhaps a toy or two.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i12">All night across the dark we steer:<br/></span> <span class="i14">But when the day returns at last<br/></span> <span class="i12">Safe in my room, beside the pier,<br/></span> <span class="i14">I find my vessel fast.<br/></span></div> </div> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[54]</SPAN></span></p> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/image_044.jpg" width-obs="600" height-obs="142" alt="Illustration" /></div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />