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The Swing

Robert Louis Stevenson

Grades
Grades K-2
Kind
poem
Length
82 words, about 1 min
From
Scotland
Text
Original text

The Swing

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 down on the garden green,
Down on the roof so brown—
Up in the air I go flying again,
Up in the air and down!

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Source and license

Public domain in the United States (first published 1885). Original source.