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by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)

In port
Language: English 
Last, to the chamber where I lie
My fearful footsteps patter nigh,
And come from out the cold and gloom
Into my warm and cheerful room.
  
There, safe arrived, we turn about
To keep the coming shadows out,
And close the happy door at last
On all the perils that we past.
  
Then, when mamma goes by to bed,
She shall come in with tip-toe tread,
And see me lying warm and fast
And in the Land of Nod at last.

First published in Magazine of Art, March 1884 as one of the "North-West Passage"

Text Authorship:

  • by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), "In port", appears in A Child's Garden of Verses, in Northwest Passage, no. 3 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Frederica Elvira Gambogi (? - 1940), "In port", published 1902 [ voice and piano ], from Child-Land [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2008-11-27
Line count: 12
Word count: 81

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