Assoc for Scottish LiteratureFrom breakfast on through all the day
At home among my friends I stay,
But every night I go abroad
Afar into the land of Nod…
—Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Land of Nod”
Published in A Child’s Garden of Verses (1885)
Image: illustration by Charles Robinson (1870–1937) to “The Land of Nod”
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The Land of Nod
From breakfast on through all the day At home among my friends I stay, But every night I go abroad Afar into the land of Nod. All by myself I have to go, With none to tell me what to do — All alone beside the streams And up the mountain-sides of dreams. The strangest things are there for me, Both…