. Stevenson's workshop . ^—-VT. • I ^-^ - Cv-A-*4 , —>iC -. w2s». va bL/Y ? e a. ,.^K ftJr>4^Lj Curious things are there for me,Both things to eat and things to see;And many frighting sights abroadTill morning in the land of nod. Try as I like to find the way,I never can get there by day,Nor can remember plain and clearThe curious music that I hear. And all alone I have to go*— Its very dangerous, dont you know — All alone beside the streams And up the mountain sides of dreams. The cancelled lines at the left, which againbring in John and Peter, together with theapparently companio
. Stevenson's workshop . ^—-VT. • I ^-^ - Cv-A-*4 , —>iC -. w2s». va bL/Y ? e a. ,.^K ftJr>4^Lj Curious things are there for me,Both things to eat and things to see;And many frighting sights abroadTill morning in the land of nod. Try as I like to find the way,I never can get there by day,Nor can remember plain and clearThe curious music that I hear. And all alone I have to go*— Its very dangerous, dont you know — All alone beside the streams And up the mountain sides of dreams. The cancelled lines at the left, which againbring in John and Peter, together with theapparently companion couplet, are notgreatly missed from Penny Whistles and AChilds Garden. The draft of the poem MyShadow7 (No. 20 of Penny Whistles andNo. 18 of A Childs Garden), like the draftof The Land of Nod, is interesting in the * It is not clear whether the word And, which precedesAll in this line, belongs to this poem or to the one struckout at the side; but in all probability it should go in here, asit completes the line. In the same line the fifth word might belove instead of have, but h
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