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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SWING, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: How do you like to go up in a swing
Last Line: Up in the air and down!
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Variant Title(s): A Child's Garden Of Verses: 33
Subject(s): Children; Labor & Laborers; Swings; Childhood; Work; Workers
First Line: How do you like to go up in a swing
Last Line: Up in the air and down!
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Variant Title(s): A Child's Garden Of Verses: 33
Subject(s): Children; Labor & Laborers; Swings; Childhood; Work; Workers
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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