III
THE PALACE PETS
The Cow[4]
The friendly cow all red and white,
I love with all my heart:
She gives me cream with all her might,
To eat with apple-tart.
She wanders lowing here and there,
And yet she cannot stray,
All in the pleasant open air,
The pleasant light of day;
And blown by all the winds that pass
And wet with all the showers,
She walks among the meadow grass
And eats the meadow flowers.
Robert Louis Stevenson.
[4] From "Poems and Ballads," copyright, 1895, 1896, by Chas. Scribner's Sons.
