“I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me,And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head;And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed.” “My Shadow” Stanza 1. Robert Louis Stevenson [1850-1894].
From Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett.
Published by Little, Brown and Company, 1955. Page 750.
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“I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me,And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head;And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed.” “My Shadow” Stanza 1. Robert Louis Stevenson [1850-1894].
From Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett.
Published by Little, Brown and Company, 1955. Page 750.