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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A GOOD PLAY, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: We built a ship upon the stairs
Last Line: So there was no one left but me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Variant Title(s): A Child's Garden Of Verses: 13
Subject(s): Children; Play; Childhood
First Line: We built a ship upon the stairs
Last Line: So there was no one left but me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Variant Title(s): A Child's Garden Of Verses: 13
Subject(s): Children; Play; Childhood
WE built a ship upon the stairs
All made of the back-bedroom chairs,
And filled it full of sofa pillows
To go a-sailing on the billows.
We took a saw and several nails,
And water in the nursery pails;
And Tom said, "Let us also take
An apple and a slice of cake;" --
Which was enough for Tom and me
To go a-sailing on, till tea.
We sailed along for days and days,
And had the very best of plays;
But Tom fell out and hurt his knee,
So there was no one left but me.
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