 
~These little shadowboxes were made especially for you to adopt.
They are interspersed between the verses of Robert Louis Stevenson's
poem, My Shadow in "A Child's Garden of Verses."~
~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 goes 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 behind 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;
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~But my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head,
Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.~
Featured Music:  "First Day Of School"
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