The Land of Counterpane

WHEN I was sick and lay a-bed, I had two pillows at my head, Andall my toys beside me lay To keep me happy all the day. And sometimes for an hour or so I watched my leaden soldiers go, With different uniforms and drills, Among the bed-clothes, through the hills ; And sometimes sent my ships in fleets All up anddown among the sheets ; Or brought my trees and houses out, And planted cities all about. I was the giant great and still That sits upon the pillow-hill, Andsees before him, dale andplain, The pleasant land of counterpane.