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Name: The Phoenix and the Carpet - To
Author: Edith Nesbit

My Dear Godson HUBERT GRIFFITH and his sister MARGARET

To HUBERT

Dear Hubert, if I ever found A wishing-carpet lying round, I’d stand upon it, and I’d say: ’Take me to Hubert, right away!’ And then we’d travel very far To where the magic countries are That you and I will never see, And choose the loveliest gifts for you, from me.

But oh! alack! and well-a-day! No wishing-carpets come my way. I never found a Phoenix yet, And Psammeads are so hard to get! So I give you nothing fine— Only this book your book and mine, And hers, whose name by yours is set; Your book, my book, the book of Margaret!

E. NESBIT DYMCHURCH September, 1904

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Chicago: Edith Nesbit, "To," The Phoenix and the Carpet, ed. Altemus, Henry in The Phoenix and the Carpet Original Sources, accessed May 3, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=ATPT61QXCH37E3T.

MLA: Nesbit, Edith. "To." The Phoenix and the Carpet, edited by Altemus, Henry, in The Phoenix and the Carpet, Original Sources. 3 May. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=ATPT61QXCH37E3T.

Harvard: Nesbit, E, 'To' in The Phoenix and the Carpet, ed. . cited in , The Phoenix and the Carpet. Original Sources, retrieved 3 May 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=ATPT61QXCH37E3T.