Something Childish, but very Natural

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h2>SOMETHING CHILDISH, BUT VERY NATURAL</h2> <h3>WRITTEN IN GERMANY</h3> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">If I had but two little wings<br/></span> <span class="i1">And were a little feathery bird,<br/></span> <span class="i2">To you I'd fly, my dear!<br/></span> <span class="i0">But thoughts like these are idle things,<br/></span> <span class="i3">And I stay here. <br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">But in my sleep to you I fly:<br/></span> <span class="i1">I'm always with you in my sleep!<br/></span> <span class="i2">The world is all one's own.<br/></span> <span class="i0">But then one wakes, and where am I?<br/></span> <span class="i3">All, all alone. <br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Sleep stays not, though a monarch bids:<br/></span> <span class="i1">So I love to wake ere break of day:<br/></span> <span class="i2">For though my sleep be gone,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Yet while 'tis dark, one shuts one's lids,<br/></span> <span class="i3">And still dreams on. <br/></span></div> </div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />