 | Education - 1898 - 404 pages
...saw, His is the picture you never could draw; But he's sure to be present, abroad or at home, When the children are happy and playing alone. He lies in the...grass, He sings when you tinkle the musical glass; When'er you are happy and cannot tell why, The friend of the children is sure to be by. TONGUE TANGLERS.... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - Children's poetry - 1885 - 124 pages
...tip-toe tread, And see me lying warm and fast And in the Land of Nod at last. THE CHILD ALONE 55 I THE UNSEEN PLAYMATE WHEN children are playing alone...big, 'T is he that inhabits the caves that you dig ; T is he when you play with your soldiers of tin That sides with the Frenchmen and never can win.... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - Children's poetry - 1895 - 120 pages
...that 'never was seen. When children are happy and lonely and good, The Friend of the Children conies out of the wood. Nobody heard him and nobody saw,...big, 'T is he that inhabits the caves that you dig ; 'T is he when you play with your soldiers of tin That sides with the Frenchmen and never can win.... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 400 pages
...comes out of the wood. Nobody heard him and nobody saw, His is a picture you never could draw, But he's sure to be present, abroad or at home, When children...be by! He loves to be little, he hates to be big, Tis he that inhabits the caves that you dig; Tis he when you play with your soldiers of tin That sides... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 394 pages
...comes out of the wood. Nobody heard him and nobody saw, His is a picture you never could draw, But he's sure to be present, abroad or at home, When children...be by! He loves to be little, he hates to be big, Tis he that inhabits the caves that you dig; 'Tis he when you play with your soldiers of tin That sides... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 396 pages
...comes out of the wood. Nobody heard him and nobody saw, His is a picture you never could draw, But he's sure to be present, abroad or at home, When children...be by ! He loves to be little, he hates to be big, Tis he that inhabits the caves that you dig; Tis he when you play with your soldiers of tin That sides... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 394 pages
...comes out of the wood. Nobody heard him and nobody saw, His is a picture you never could draw, But he's sure to be present, abroad or at home, When children...be by! He loves to be little, he hates to be big, Tis he that inhabits the caves that you dig; Tis he when you play with your soldiers of tin That sides... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - English literature - 1896 - 690 pages
...comes out of the wood. Nobody heard him and nobody saw, His is a picture you never could draw, But he's sure to be present, abroad or at home, When children...be by! He loves to be little, he hates to be big, 'Tis he that inhabits the caves that you dig; 'Tis he when you play with your soldiers of tin That... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1896 - 694 pages
...comes out of the wood. Nobody heard him and nobody saw, His is a picture you never could draw, But he's sure to be present, abroad or at home, When children...be by! He loves to be little, he hates to be big, 'Tis he that inhabits the caves that you dig; 'Tis he when you play with your soldiers of tin That... | |
 | Margaret Moyes Black - Authors, Scottish - 1898 - 172 pages
...than his playful rendering of it in The Unseen Playmate seems at first to infer : ' Whene'er you're happy and cannot tell why, The Friend of the children is sure to be by.' A faith that was taught him by an earnest father and by the loving voice of a mother who held it fast... | |
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WHEN children are playing alone on the green, In comes the playmate that never was seen. When children are happy and lonely and good, The Friend of the Children comes out of the wood. Nobody heard him and nobody saw, His is a picture you never could draw,... 
