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<h2>MY KINGDOM</h2> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> Down by a shining water well I found a very little dell, No higher than my head. The heather and the gorse about In summer bloom were coming out, Some yellow and some red. </div> <div class="stanza"> I called the little pool a sea; The little hills were big to me; For I am very small. I made a boat, I made a town, I searched the caverns up and down, And named them one and all. [73]</div> <div class="stanza"> And all about was mine, I said, The little sparrows overhead, The little minnows, too. This was the world and I was king; For me the bees came by to sing, For me the swallows flew. </div> <div class="stanza"> I played there were no deeper seas, Nor any wider plains than these, Nor other kings than me. At last I heard my mother call Out from the house at evenfall, To call me home to tea. </div> <div class="stanza"> And I must rise and leave my dell, And leave my dimpled water well, And leave my heather blooms. Alas! and as my home I neared, How very big my nurse appeared, How great and cool the rooms! </div> </div> [74] <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/image_073.jpg" width-obs="450" height-obs="741" alt="Illustration" /></div> [75]   <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/image_028.jpg" width-obs="600" height-obs="144" alt="Illustration" /></div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div>

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