A Child's Garden of Verses - By Robert Louis Stevenson
10.05.2008
THE LAND OF COUNTERPANE
WHEN I was sick and lay a-bed,
I had two pillows at my head,
And all my toys beside me lay
To keep me happy all the day.
And sometimes for an hour or so
I watched my leaden soldiers go,
With different uniforms and drills,
Among the bed-clothes, through the hills;
And sometimes sent my ships in fleets
All up and down among the sheets ;
Or brought my trees and houses out,
And planted cities all about.
I was the giant great and still
That sits upon the pillow-hill,
And sees before him, dale and plain,
The pleasant land of counterpane.
Fava Beans @ Depiero's Farm Montvale, NJ
A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti. Now where have I heard this?
