Saturday Poetry Corner: 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!

The Swing

(1976)

Norman Rockwell

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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"
From "A Child's Garden Of Verses"
(1885)
Robert Lewis Stevenson
(1850-1894)
Scottish novelist, poet, essayist,
and travel writer