My Heroes
MY HEROES
Grown-ups read their grown-up volumes by a shaded light
I have Long John Silver, stepping through the night.
They read books where people say, "Won't you?" or "I beg!"
I have Long John Silver, with his wooden leg!
What's the use of reading in a parlor chair?
Would a real adventure ever find you there?
Grown-ups read of birds that sing in a hollow vale;
My birds are the winds that ring in a hollow sail.
Sister loves a hero with mustache nicely trimmed;
I love robbers riding when the moon is dimmed.
Mother loves to read of souls that sigh, and sigh, and sigh.
I love a buccaneer with a blood-red eye!
I read in the attic when the wind is there;
Nothing ever happens in a parlor chair!
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