Child's Garden of Verses (Version 3)

<h2><SPAN name="SHADOW_MARCH" id="SHADOW_MARCH"></SPAN>SHADOW MARCH</h2> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i12">All round the house is the jet-black night;<br/></span> <span class="i14">It stares through the window-pane;<br/></span> <span class="i12">It crawls in the corners, hiding from the light,<br/></span> <span class="i14">And it moves with the moving flame.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i12">Now my little heart goes a-beating like a drum,<br/></span> <span class="i14">With the breath of Bogie in my hair,<br/></span> <span class="i12">And all round the candle the crooked shadows come,<br/></span> <span class="i14">And go marching along up the stair.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i12">The shadow of the balusters, the shadow of the lamp,<br/></span> <span class="i14">The shadow of the child that goes to bed&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i12">All the wicked shadows coming, tramp, tramp, tramp,<br/></span> <span class="i14">With the black night overhead.<br/></span></div> </div> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[76]</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 />