Poem: A Child’s Thought

by Robert Louis Stevenson

At seven, when I go to bed
I find such pictures in my head;
Castles with dragons prowling round
Gardens where magic fruits are found;
Fair ladies prisoned in a tower
Or lost in an enchanted bower;
While gallant horsemen ride by streams
That border all this land of dreams
I find, so clearly in my head
At seven, when I go to bed.