Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume I. Of Home: of Friendship. 1904. | | | | Poems of Home: II. For Children | | The Wind | | Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) |
| | | I SAW you toss the kites on high | |
| And blow the birds about the sky; | |
| And all around I heard you pass, | |
| Like ladies’ skirts across the grass— | |
| O wind, a-blowing all day long, | 5 |
| O wind, that sings so loud a song! | |
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| I saw the different things you did, | |
| But always you yourself you hid. | |
| I felt you push, I heard you call, | |
| I could not see yourself at all— | 10 |
| O wind, a-blowing all day long, | |
| O wind, that sings so loud a song! | |
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| O you that are so strong and cold, | |
| O blower, are you young or old? | |
| Are you a beast of field and tree, | 15 |
| Or just a stronger child than me? | |
| O wind, a-blowing all day long, | |
| O wind, that sings so loud a song! | | | | |
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