. Stevenson's workshop . s and the lollypops madean abiding impression upon his mind. Inanother place (on facsimile No. 17) thethought of the foregoing lines is expressed inanother form:— I wish I had the lollypopsFrom all the apothecarys shops;They only give me one a dayTo take the nasty taste away. Neither of these versions would have dis-graced A Childs Garden, but Stevenson wasperhaps right in discarding them. Whether,if he had continued the poem begun with areference to the candle light and the organman, we should have had another childs clas-sic must remain in doubt; but it is plain that
. Stevenson's workshop . s and the lollypops madean abiding impression upon his mind. Inanother place (on facsimile No. 17) thethought of the foregoing lines is expressed inanother form:— I wish I had the lollypopsFrom all the apothecarys shops;They only give me one a dayTo take the nasty taste away. Neither of these versions would have dis-graced A Childs Garden, but Stevenson wasperhaps right in discarding them. Whether,if he had continued the poem begun with areference to the candle light and the organman, we should have had another childs clas-sic must remain in doubt; but it is plain that 1 As the reader will perceive from the facsimile, Stevensonwas not clear as to the propriety of inserting this word. Itmakes the line too long, therefore we have omitted the secondword then, as he would perhaps have done in retaining theword he inserted between the lines. [34] ftgJ^C#JjfrA Asa. -o «v*^- i>.^ U* AW* *« Si ^ ^ H^iVi Vm It. > in i i i J I \* L ? «*^— »W-«y w y fry • V Vr <\X/WVr~». - cs. (w» ^. lie thought enough of the stanzas that finishout the sheet to preserve them, with somechanges, for The Child Alone, where theyare entitled My Ship and I. Facsimile No. 7 contains, besides the playdedication dated Davos, 1881, four drafts ofpoems later included in Penny Whistles andA Childs Garden, a quatrain included inPenny Whistles, but not in A Childs Gar-den, and another quatrain, apparently un-published. The draft of A Thought (No. 2 of bothPenny Whistles and A Childs Garden) cor-responds with the version given in the formeras is indicated by the facsimile to be found inthe Widener Catalogue. That authority () states that the versions of Penny Whis-tles and of the first edition of A Childs Gar-den agree. We are therefore left wonderingwhy some editions of Stevensons poemsleave out the so of the first line — It is so very nice to think. The draft of Young Night Thought(No. 4 of both Penny Whistles and A ChildsGarden) omits the closing cou
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