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!

Illustration by Eloise Burns

A Child's Garden of Verses

(1930)

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!

"The Swing"

Robert Louis Stevenson

(1850-1894)

Scottish poet and writer