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 33289-34044; checksum 19b75d61ccce5114b1e051efd8ba4a6d01cecf04750b42bb32df70bbcefd8303.


# Picture-Books in Winter

Picture-Books in Winter

  Summer fading, winter comes--
  Frosty mornings, tingling thumbs,
  Window robins, winter rooks,
  And the picture story-books.

  Water now is turned to stone
  Nurse and I can walk upon;
  Still we find the flowing brooks
  In the picture story-books.

  All the pretty things put by,
  Wait upon the children's eye,
  Sheep and shepherds, trees and crooks,
  In the picture story-books.

  We may see how all things are
  Seas and cities, near and far,
  And the flying fairies' looks,
  In the picture story-books.

  How am I to sing your praise,
  Happy chimney-corner days,
  Sitting safe in nursery nooks,
  Reading picture story-books?


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