I had that book!! That poem was in "The Land of Counterpane" which my
mother read to me when I was 4 and sick in bed. So this becoming an
architect wasn't an accident after all?
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From: Bruce.Barrett <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Tuesday, January 12, 1999 11:36 AM
Subject: Re: Early Influences
><Does anyone else remember "Block City"?>
>
>Block City
>
>What are you able to build with your blocks?
>Castles and palaces, temples and docks.
>Rain may keep raining, and others go roam,
>But I can be happy and building at home.
>
>Let the sofa be mountains, the carpet be sea,
>There I'll establish a city for me:
>A kirk and a mill and a palace beside,
>And a harbour as well where my vessels may ride.
>
>Great is the palace with pillar and wall,
>A sort of a tower on the top of it all,
>And steps coming down in an orderly way
>To where my toy vessels lie safe in the bay.
>
>This one is sailing and that one is moored:
>Hark to the song of the sailors aboard!
>And see, on the steps of my palace, the kings
>Coming and going with presents and things!
>
>Yet as I saw it, I see it again,
>The kirk and the palace, the ships and the men,
>And as long as I live and where'er I may be,
>I'll always remember my town by the sea.
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> Robert Louis Stevenson
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