Retained text edition
My Bed Is A Boat
A complete poem from A Child’s Garden of Verses. Original wording and verse line breaks are preserved.
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MY bed is a little boat; Nurse helps me in when I embark She girds me in my sailor's coat And starts me in the dark.
At night, I go on board and say Good night to all my friends on shore; I shut my eyes and sail away And see and hear no more.
And sometimes things to bed I take, As prudent sailors have to do: Perhaps a slice of wedding-cake, Perhaps a toy or two.
All night across the dark we steer: But when the day returns at last, Safe in my room, beside the pier, I find my vessel fast.