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THE SWING by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: HOW DO YOU LIKE TO GO UP IN A SWING
Last Line: UP IN THE AIR AND DOWN!
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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