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Where Go The Boats?Text edition

Retained text edition

Where Go The Boats?

by Robert Louis Stevenson

A complete poem from A Child’s Garden of Verses. Original wording and verse line breaks are preserved.

This edition preserves the original text. Original illustrations are not included. Your existing reading link still opens the same version.

DARK brown is the river, Golden is the sand. It flows along for ever, With trees on either hand.

Green leaves a-floating, Castles of the foam, Boats of mine a-boating-- Where will all come home?

On goes the river And out past the mill, Away down the valley, Away down the hill.

Away down the river, A hundred miles or more, Other little children Shall bring my boats ashore.

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