Source: Project Gutenberg #136
Source URL: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/136
Public domain basis: Public-domain English poems by Robert Louis Stevenson (1885).
Coverage: Complete individual poem extracted from parent edition a-childs-garden-of-verses at bytes 19864-20613; checksum c76c688680cbd809c1338ed3493bf0d352d99ba6b952b40b80430d35feaab1b1.


# Foreign Children

Foreign Children

  Little Indian, Sioux, or Crow,
  Little frosty Eskimo,
  Little Turk or Japanee,
  Oh! don't you wish that you were me?

  You have seen the scarlet trees
  And the lions over seas;
  You have eaten ostrich eggs,
  And turned the turtles off their legs.

  Such a life is very fine,
  But it's not so nice as mine:
  You must often as you trod,
  Have wearied NOT to be abroad.

  You have curious things to eat,
  I am fed on proper meat;
  You must dwell upon the foam,
  But I am safe and live at home.
       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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