Nature

The Sun Travels

by Robert Louis Stevenson 1850–1894

From A Child's Garden of Verses

Nature

The sun is not a-bed, when I
At night upon my pillow lie;
Still round the earth his way he takes,
And morning after morning makes.

While here at home, in shining day,
We round the sunny garden play,
Each little Indian sleepy-head
Is being kissed and put to bed.

And when at eve I rise from tea,
Day dawns beyond the Atlantic Sea;
And all the children in the west
Are getting up and being dressed.

MLA

Stevenson, Robert Louis. “The Sun Travels.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/stevenson/28/.

Chicago

Stevenson, Robert Louis. “The Sun Travels.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/stevenson/28/.

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