WHETHER upon the garden seat
You lounge with your uplifted feet
Under the May's whole Heaven of blue;
Or whether on the sofa you,
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I am so pleased that I lingered in 'The Childs Garden of Verses' when I was little. My copy still has front row position on the bookshelf and is constantly reread.
Perfect truth. So many adults today have benefited for their youthful time spent inside the pages of his garden of verses. He opens their kingdoms to all sorts of events and people and magic and the effect of this goes with them as they grow up.