Assoc for Scottish Literature

These are the hills, these are the woods,
These are my starry solitudes;
And there the river by whose brink
The roaring lions come to drink…

—Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Land of Story-Books”
from A CHILD’S GARDEN OF VERSES
📚🛋️🦁

A poem for World Book Day (UK & Ireland)
🖼️ by Roger Duvoisin, 1944

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Mar 5 at 1:50pmWeb
Show threadHerndoniteMar 5

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Robert Louis Stevenson was the first poet I fell in love with as a kid. Part of the attraction was that we had the same first names, but I did enjoy his rhythmic odes to childhood.

Thanks for posting this.

Show threadbookworks 💙Mar 6
@Herndonite @scotlit @bookstodon I can visualize the book of his poetry that we had for our kids. I’ll have to dig it out! Thx. 🙏🏻📚