Robert Louis Stevenson Children Poems

Children, you are very little,
And your bones are very brittle;
If you would grow great and stately,
You must try to walk sedately.
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Little Indian, Sioux, or Crow,
Little frosty Eskimo,
Little Turk or Japanee,
Oh! don't you wish that you were me?
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A child should always say what's true
And speak when he is spoken to,
And behave mannerly at table;
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COME, my little children, here are songs for you;
Some are short and some are long, and all, all are new.
You must learn to sing them very small and clear,
Very true to time and tune and pleasing to the ear.
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