Dedication To Daphne
You
gave me Christopher Robin, and then
you breathed new life in Pooh.
Whatever
of each has left my pen
Goes homing back to you.
My book is
ready, and comes to greet
The mother
it longs to see-
It would
be my present to you, my sweet,
If it weren't your gift to me.
Christopher Robin and his mother, Daphne, in 1926