It's Following Me! Make It Go Away!!
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jujube
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My Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson:
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.
The funniest thing about him is the way he likes to grow—
Not at all like proper children, which is always very slow;
For he sometimes shoots up taller like an india-rubber ball,
And he sometimes gets so little that there's none of him at all.
He hasn't got a notion of how children ought to play,
And can only make a fool of me in every sort of way.
He stays so close beside me, he's a coward you can see;
I'd think shame to stick to nursie as that shadow sticks to me!
One morning, very early, before the sun was up,
I rose and found the shining dew on every buttercup;
But my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head,
Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.
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.
The funniest thing about him is the way he likes to grow—
Not at all like proper children, which is always very slow;
For he sometimes shoots up taller like an india-rubber ball,
And he sometimes gets so little that there's none of him at all.
He hasn't got a notion of how children ought to play,
And can only make a fool of me in every sort of way.
He stays so close beside me, he's a coward you can see;
I'd think shame to stick to nursie as that shadow sticks to me!
One morning, very early, before the sun was up,
I rose and found the shining dew on every buttercup;
But my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head,
Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.
Callie
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- California
I've never seen a child afraid of their shadow before. The video was reallly interesting! The poem by RLS was great. Thanks for sharing those!
NanaSarah
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- Washingto State
Makes me sad to hear a parent laughing at their child's fears! But, the babies are cute!
Oh dear, my father would have had a belly laugh and teased me for a week about it. .. Lesson: If we're laughing about it, it's nothing to be afraid of.
I was walking my puppy when I first got him in the back yard very late at night. It was a full moon and there's a big open space area behind my back chain link fence. I saw my own shadow in the field and was startled for a second until I realized it wasn't a stranger lurking back there. Came in and told my husband about it and we had a good laugh. 