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And with that, here's today's episode.

Welcome back to the Daily Poem, a podcast from Goldberry Studios.

I'm Sean Johnson, and today is Thursday, June 8, 2023.

Today's poem is by the great Victorian writer Robert Lewis Stevenson.

And though Stevenson is generally known for his thrilling adventure fiction,

at the very same time, in fact, in the same three-year period that he was writing books like Treasure Island, kidnapped, in the strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, he was also writing a collection of children's verse, a child's garden of verses, which has become much beloved by generations of readers.

Today's poem comes from that collection, and it's called Bed in Summer.

I'll read it once, offer a few brief remarks, and then read it one more time.

In winter, I get up at night and dress by yellow candlelight.

In summer, quite the other way.

I have to go to bed by day.

I have to go to bed and see the birds still hopping on the tree, or hear the grown-up

people's feet still going past me

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