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The poem is addressed to the speaker's young son, recalling how the speaker lived in her imagination as a child just as her son does now. It ends with the speaker saying that she can no longer wander through fairytale terrain like her son, but must 'live'.
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English translation of the title: Read to me, Mummy
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English translation of first line: When I was as little
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