To Auntie by Robert Louis Stevenson

"Chief of our aunts"–not only I,
But all your dozen of nurselings cry–
"What did the other children do?
And what were childhood, wanting you?"

More from Robert Louis Stevenson:

• Thrawn Janet
• The Waif Woman
• The Sire de Maletroit’s Door
• The Sea Fogs
• The Scientific Ape
• The Clockmaker