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they are united by a love of music and poetry

--from the foreword by Dr

Her scientist son must turn his attention from the music of the spheres to the job of defending his mother

Alwyn's conscience fights its own war with his heart

A Child's Garden of Verses (Reissue) trauma they are united by aScottish novelist, poet and essayist Robert Louis Stevenson dedicated "A Child's Garden of Verses" to Alison Cunningham, the nurse of his early childhood years in Edinburgh a time whose essence he strove to recapture in the sixty four poems of this long treasured collection. Here, in "The Land of Counterpane" and "The Land of Nod, " and in such delightful lyrics as "My Bed Is a Boat, " "Autumn Fires" and "Windy Nights, " are rhymes and images children