Source: Project Gutenberg #136
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Public domain basis: Public-domain English poems by Robert Louis Stevenson (1885).
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# My Bed is a Boat

My Bed is a Boat

  My bed is like a little boat;
       Nurse helps me in when I embark;
  She girds me in my sailor's coat
       And starts me in the dark.

  At night I go on board and say
       Good-night to all my friends on shore;
  I shut my eyes and sail away
       And see and hear no more.

  And sometimes things to bed I take,
       As prudent sailors have to do;
  Perhaps a slice of wedding-cake,
       Perhaps a toy or two.

  All night across the dark we steer;
       But when the day returns at last,
  Safe in my room beside the pier,
       I find my vessel fast.


                                           XXXII