We built a ship upon the stairs <br />All made of the back-bedroom chairs, <br />And filled it full of soft pillows <br />To go a-sailing on the billows. <br /> <br />We took a saw and several nails, <br />And water in the nursery pails; <br />And Tom said, "Let us also take <br />An apple and a slice of cake;"-- <br />Which was enough for Tom and me <br />To go a-sailing on, till tea. <br /> <br />We sailed along for days and days, <br />And had the very best of plays; <br />But Tom fell out and hurt his knee, <br />So there was no one left but me.<br /><br />Robert Louis Stevenson<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-good-play/
