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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,
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!

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TEXT PROVENANCE · First published 1885 in A Child’s Garden of Verses (Longmans, Green, and Co.). Text supplied by the artist.

A Child’s Garden of Verses (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1885); artist-supplied text

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