A Child's Garden of Verses

Produced by Juliet Sutherland Christine D. and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without the permission of Charles Scribner's Sons _For the long nights you lay awake_ _And watched for my unworthy sake:_ _For your most comfortable hand_ _That led me through the uneven land:_ _For all the story-books you read:_ _For all the pains you comforted:_ _For all you pitied, all you bore,_ _In sad and happy days of yore:--_ _My second Mother, my first Wife,_ _The angel of my infant life--_ _From the sick child, now well and old,_ _Take, nurse, the little book you hold!_