Vespers (poem)

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"Vespers" is a poem by the British author A. A. Milne, first published in 1923 by the American magazine Vanity Fair, and later included in the 1924 book of Milne's poems When We Were Very Young when it was accompanied by two illustrations by E. H. Shepard. It was written about the "Christopher Robin" persona of Milne's son Christopher Robin Milne. It predates the creation of Winnie-the-Pooh. The poem was set to music by Harold Fraser-Simson in 1927 and, under the name Christopher Robin is Saying His Prayers, many commercial recordings of the song were released including by Gracie Fields and Vera Lynn. In his 1974 memoir, Christopher Milne described it as a "wretched poem" which inaccurately described his thoughts in prayer.

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