Robert Louis Stevenson Child Poems

WHETHER upon the garden seat
You lounge with your uplifted feet
Under the May's whole Heaven of blue;
Or whether on the sofa you,
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GOD gave to me a child in part,
Yet wholly gave the father's heart:
Child of my soul, O whither now,
Unborn, unmothered, goest thou?
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Some day soon this rhyming volume, if you learn with proper speed,
Little Louis Sanchez, will be given you to read.
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For the long nights you lay awake
And watched for my unworthy sake:
For your most comfortable hand
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CHILD.
O Mother, lay your hand on my brow!
O mother, mother, where am I now?
Why is the room so gaunt and great?
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