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 47237-47921; checksum 533e3c23e6a895652943dbc90c52bcac45d95ec07562581a57125f8a6cdf6f91.


# To Willie and Henrietta

To Willie and Henrietta

       If two may read aright
       These rhymes of old delight
       And house and garden play,
  You two, my cousins, and you only, may.

       You in a garden green
       With me were king and queen,
       Were hunter, soldier, tar,
  And all the thousand things that children are.

       Now in the elders' seat
       We rest with quiet feet,
       And from the window-bay
  We watch the children, our successors, play.

       "Time was," the golden head
       Irrevocably said;
       But time which one can bind,
  While flowing fast away, leaves love behind.


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