The Swing

Introduction

by HRM Deborah

This poem was one of my favorites, I actually had to recite it by memory for an seventh grade English class. What made it more interesting, I was new to the school and the book the poem came from had also been a school book for my teacher; she told me this after I had recited the poem. You guessed it I got and A. The other children in the class loved it as well.

Robert Lewis Stevenson

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!