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The SwingText edition

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The Swing

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.

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, 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!

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