MY SHADOW

The writer :

Robert Louise Stevenson born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson 13 November 1850 Edinburgh, Scotland. Died 3 December 1894 (aged 44) Vailima, Samoan Islands.His occupation was novelist , poet,travel writer and his Nationality Scottish, Citizenship United Kingdom . And his education 1857 Mr. Henderson's School, Edinburgh,1857 Private tutors,1859 Return to Mr. Henderson's School,1861 Edinburgh Academy,1863 Boarding school in Isleworth, Middlesex,1864 Robert Thomson's School, Edinburgh,1867 University of Edinburgh My Shad.

Robert Louise Stevenson

MY SHADOW  

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me,

And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.

He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head;

And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed.


The funniest thing about him is the way he likes to grow

Not at all like proper children, which is always very slow;

For he sometimes shoots up taller like an india-rubber ball,

And he sometimes gets so little that there's none of him at all.


He hasn't got a notion of how children ought to play,

And can only make a fool of me in every sort of way.

He stays so close beside me, he's a coward you can see;

I'd think shame to stick to nursie as that shadow sticks to me!


One morning, very early, before the sun was up,

I rose and found the shining dew on every buttercup;

But my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head,

Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.