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To Willie and Henrietta

by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1885

      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 none can bind,
While flowing fast away, leaves love behind.

Published in A Child's Garden of Verses
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