Stevenson dedicated the poems to his nurse cummy alison cunningham, who cared for him during his many childhood illnesses. Robert louis stevensons venerated volume of childrens poems has prospered during more than a century in print. He spent his last five years on the island of samoa as a planter and chief of the. May 26, 2008 a childs garden of verses by robert louis stevenson.
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