Spring has sprung! Margaux is 4 1/2 years old! Amazing little girl...happy life!
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Friday, April 12, 2013
My Shadow
By Robert Louis Stevenson
I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me,
And what can be the use of her is more than I can see.
She is very, very like me from the heels up to the head;
And I see her jump before me, when I jump into my bed.
The funniest thing about her is the way she likes to grow—
Not at all like proper children, which is always very slow;
For she sometimes shoots up taller like an india-rubber ball,
And she sometimes gets so little that there's none of her at all.
She hasn't got a notion of how children ought to play,
And can only make a fool of me in every sort of way.
She stays so close beside me, she's a coward you can see;
I'd think shame to stick to nursie as that shadow sticks to me!
One morning, very early, before the sun was up,
I rose and found the shining dew on every buttercup;
But my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head,
Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.
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