A Child's Thought By Robert Louis Stevenson

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850 - 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer. He wrote popular books tar children like Treasure Islandand Kidnapped that are still loved the world over. His collection of poems for children, A Child's Garden of Verse (1885), is well liked by adults too.

At seven, when I go to bed,

I find such pictures in my head:

Castles with dragons prowling round,

Gardens where magic fruits are found;

Fair ladies prisoned in a tower,

Or lost in an enchanted bower;

While gallant horsemen ride by streams

That border all this land of dreams

I find, so clearly in my head

At seven, when I go to bed.

At seven, when I wake again,

The magic land I seek in vain;

A chair stands where the castle frowned,

The carpet hides the garden ground,

No fairies trip across the floor,

Boots, and not horsemen, flank the door,

And where the blue streams rippling ran

Is now a bath and water-can;

I seek the magic land in vain

At seven, when I wake again.

1.
Tick the correct options.
1. What does the child do when he wakes up?
  1. He tries to find the garden under the carpet.
  2. He tries to find the magic land he had seen in his dreams.
2. By 'castle frowned' the child means that the
  1. castle was old.
  2. castle looked imposing and threatening.
2.
What does the child mean by "I find such pictures in my head"? Describe any two pictures that the child finds in his head.
3.
What are the differences between the waking and sleeping worlds of the child?
4.
There are some words that are very commonly used together. For example, the word enchanted is commonly used to describe magical forests and castles in fairy tales and legends. Identify words from the poem that are commonly used with the underlined words. Fill in the blanks with those words.
1. The guardsflank the gates of the presidential palace.
2. The _____________ stream sparkled under the sun.
3. The evil sorcerer had imprisoned the ____________ lady in his castle tower.
4. The hungry tiger _____________ the forest in search of prey.
5. The ______________ knight escorted the pilgrims on their way to Canterbury.
5.
Fill in the blanks with the correct pronouns from the brackets.
1. Can you dance as well as ________________? (they/them)
2. Aastha and ___________ were waiting for you. (I / me)
3. None but ___________ admitted to the mistake. (she/her)
4. Do you think you and _____________ can go to the science Museum together? (I / us)
5. I have misplaced Bobby's phone number. How do I contact ______________? (him/he)
6. It was rather late at night when ___________ drove back home. (them / they)
7. The question is for ______________ to answer. (she / her)
6.
Look at the underlined pronouns in these sentences. Write what kind they are.
1. You may help yourself. ____________
2. The boy who conducted the assembly is the now head boy. ____________
3. Someone must have been at the door, for I heard a knock. _______________
4. Which do you prefer - the red one or the blue one? ____________
5. Shubhra lives by herself on the top floor of the house. ____________
6. This is a historical monument. ____________
7. I like the blue scarf. You can choose yours. ____________
8. Everyone enjoyed the school play. _______________

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Gems English Reader 6

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A Child's Thought

Robert Louis Stevenson

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