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Robert Louis Stevenson: Collected Poems

Edited, with an introduction and notes, by Janet Adam Smith
Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)

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POEMS 1869–1879
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UNDERWOODS
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BALLADS
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SONGS OF TRAVEL
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POEMS 1880–1894
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DEDICATIONS AND POEMS FROM BOOKS
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LIGHT VERSE
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POEMS FOR CHILDREN

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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!
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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