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My bed is like a little boat;
Nurse helps me in when I embark ;

She girds me in my sailor’s coat

And starts me in the dark.

At night I go on board and say,

Good-night to all my friends on

shore;

I shut my eyes and sail away,

And see and hear no more.

And sometimes things to bed I take,

As sailors have to do;

Perhaps a slice of wedding-cake,

Perhaps a toy or two.

All night across the dark we steer ,

But when the day returns at last;

Safe in my room beside the pier ,

I find my vessel fast.

– Robert Louis Stevenson

embark : go on board girds : put a girdle around board : get on
shore : the land along the edge of a waterbody

steer : to guide pier : dock

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