. Stevenson's workshop . —1—-? > ^•/%AA*^*-N •yXi/V^^A I « .v-1. AS .*o> - T5Sfif* K >vm_ C~ 6-vv~juJ ^ yS** ~ . , IT V*- -Jf 1- V. I 1 L- ik^c- /&-. *! bJ ?ju^ a number of years, more than a third haveto do with what is undoubtedly the bestknown and most cherished part of his poetry,A Childs Garden of Verses. Facsimile shows a draft of the famous stanzas en-titled A Good Play, which begin with thelines — We built a ship upon the stairs,All made of the back-bedroom chairs, and constitute the thirteenth poem in AChilds Garden. The variations between thepoem as we read it today and
. Stevenson's workshop . —1—-? > ^•/%AA*^*-N •yXi/V^^A I « .v-1. AS .*o> - T5Sfif* K >vm_ C~ 6-vv~juJ ^ yS** ~ . , IT V*- -Jf 1- V. I 1 L- ik^c- /&-. *! bJ ?ju^ a number of years, more than a third haveto do with what is undoubtedly the bestknown and most cherished part of his poetry,A Childs Garden of Verses. Facsimile shows a draft of the famous stanzas en-titled A Good Play, which begin with thelines — We built a ship upon the stairs,All made of the back-bedroom chairs, and constitute the thirteenth poem in AChilds Garden. The variations between thepoem as we read it today and the form ittook in Penny Whistles (No. 15), the ex-tremely scare forerunner of A Childs Gar-den, are but trifling, if wre may judge fromthe statement made in the superb catalogueof the Harry Elkins Widener Collection ofStevensoniana; but here we have several in-teresting particulars brought to light. We loaded it with sofa pillows, as line three originally stood, was happilychanged, perhaps speedily, to the presentversion — And filled it full of sofa pillows. [19] What is now the
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