
“I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me,
And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head;
And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed.”
“My Shadow” Stanza 1.
Robert Louis Stevenson [1850-1894].
From Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett.
Published by Little, Brown and Company, 1955. Page 750.