A short, dreamy invitation to an imaginary feast of fairy bread, golden broom and pine shade. It is brief enough for very young listeners and rewards a hushed, storytelling voice.
From A Child's Garden of Verses. See the whole collection.
Come up here, O dusty feet!
Here is fairy bread to eat.
Here in my retiring room,
Children, you may dine
On the golden smell of broom
And the shade of pine;
And when you have eaten well,
Fairy stories hear and tell.
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An invitation into make-believe: tired, dusty feet are asked up to a "retiring room" and fed on golden smells and pine shade instead of real food. It's one of the more whimsical poems in A Child's Garden of Verses, closer to a spell than a story. Read it slowly and quietly, as though you're letting a child in on a secret.
Public domain. Text from A Child's Garden of Verses (Robert Louis Stevenson, 1885), via Project Gutenberg. View the source edition