by Robert Louis Stevenson
How do you like to go up in a swing,
Up in the air so blue?
Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing
Ever a child can do!
Up in the air and over the wall,
Till I can see so wide,
Rivers and trees and cattle and all
Over the countryside--
Till I look dow on the garden green,
Down on the roof so brown--
Up in the air I go flying again,
Up in the air and down!
Here's another poem by Robert Louis Stevenson for
your
reading pleasure. If you like these, there are lots
more in A Child's Garden of Verses. You can
find it at your library (one of my personal
favorite
places).
Bed in Summer
In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer, quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.
I have to go to bed and see
The birds still hopping on the tree
Or hear the grown-up people's feet
Still going past me in the street.
And does it not seem hard to you,
When all the sky is clear and blue,
And I should like so much to play,
To have to go to bed by day?
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