Grade 3 · Poem
Where Go the Boats?
A summer afternoon by a wide, slow river. A boy of about six, with fair skin and sandy hair, in a white shirt and short pants, kneels on a strip of pale sand and sets a small wooden toy boat on the water. Trees grow along both banks. Far off, a mill with a water wheel stands below green hills.
Dark brown is the river,
Golden is the sand.
It flows along for ever,
From A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson (1885) · A Child's Garden of Verses, Robert Louis Stevenson (1885)
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