One of Robert Louis Stevenson's short dedication poems from A Child's Garden of Verses, written straight to his own mother. In four lines he asks her to read his rhymes and hear, once more, the sound of a child's feet on the floor. A gentle way to open the book, best read slowly.
From A Child's Garden of Verses. See the whole collection.
You too, my mother, read my rhymes
For love of unforgotten times,
And you may chance to hear once more
The little feet along the floor.
Public domain. Text from A Child's Garden of Verses (Robert Louis Stevenson, 1885), via Project Gutenberg. View the source edition