Favorite Books
from Throughout My Life
96: A Child’s Garden of Verses,
1885, by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–94)
This book was in my grandma’s house—
And in our house for years.
She read to me of shadows and
Of in-the-nighttime fears.
In later years, we bought the book—
And shared some with our son.
And later still I memorized
“My Shadow” (favorite one!).
I’ve memorized some others, too—
About a horse at night,
About the creatures of the moon
And how they hide in light.
My earliest memories of this book?
Far back to toddler years.
I loved those poems—love them still—
Some still bring me to tears.
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