"A Good Play" (RLStevenson)

Esta poesía es probablemente mi primer recuerdo literario. Después de un poco de investigación, ayudada por un cerebrudo y bien dispuesto académico de la University of Edinburgh, creo haber dado con él mismísimo y purísimo primer poema que conocí.

We built a ship upon the stairs
All made of the back-bedroom chairs,
And filled it full of soft pillows
To go a-sailing on the billows.

We took a saw and several nails,
And water in the nursery pails;
And Tom said, "Let us also take
An apple and a slice of cake;"--
Which was enough for Tom and me
To go a-sailing on, till tea.

We sailed along for days and days,
And had the very best of plays;
But Tom fell out and hurt his knee,
So there was no one left but me.