Poem by Robert Louis Stevenson

A Child's Garden of Verses. 33. The Swing

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, 
River 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!

1. Songs of Travel and Other Verses. 13. Mater Triumphans
2. About the Sheltered Garden Ground
3. An English Breeze
4. Sonet VI. As in the Hostel by the Bridge I Sate
5. As One Who Having Wandered All Night Long

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