Today my son and I enjoyed this poem.
After I finished reading it I said to my lad “boy this poem makes me think of you.”
He laughed and said “I know mom. And it makes me think of you too!”.
I laughed too.
It’s good to laugh with a boy over good poetry isn’t it?
I could have gone into the form and structure of the poem, but for today.. it was just good to laugh with a boy child. 🙂
The Land of Story-books
by Robert Louis Stevenson
At evening when the lamp is lit,
Around the fire my parents sit;
They sit at home and talk and sing,
And do not play at anything.
Now, with my little gun, I crawl
All in the dark along the wall,
And follow round the forest track
Away behind the sofa back.
There, in the night, where none can spy,
All in my hunter’s camp I lie,
And play at books that I have read
Till it is time to go to bed.
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.
I see the others far away
As if in firelit camp they lay,
And I, like to an Indian scout,
Around their party prowled about.
So when my nurse comes in for me,
Home I return across the sea,
And go to bed with backward looks
At my dear land of Story-books.