Friday Poetry: Robert Louis Stevenson

Happy Friday!

I’ve had a day full of reading and it has been wonderful and long overdue.

My chosen poem this week is by the Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894).

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,
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!

Robert Louis Stevenson

Happy Reading

Etsy

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