The Land of Counterpaneby Robert Louis Stevenson
| When I was sick and lay a-bed, I had two pillows at my head, And all my toys beside me lay, To keep me happy all the day. And sometimes for an hour or so I watched my leaden soldiers go, With different uniforms and drills, Among the bed-clothes, through the hills; And sometimes sent my ships in fleets All up and down among the sheets; Or brought my trees and houses out, And planted cities all about. I was the giant great and still That sits upon the pillow-hill, And sees before him, dale and plain, The pleasant land of counterpane. |
I remember this poem from a little green hardback book called 'a treasury of Children's Poems' or something similar. I must use a Count de Payne in a wargaming world as a nod to this poem.
ReplyDeleteI recall doing that when I was quite young with my Britains soldiers. Thanks for the pleasant memories. How many of us adults are recreating these lost childhoods, I wonder?
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