Nature

Where Go the Boats?

by Robert Louis Stevenson 1850–1894

From A Child's Garden of Verses

Nature

Dark brown is the river,
Golden is the sand.
It flows along for ever,
With trees on either hand.

Green leaves a-floating,
Castles of the foam,
Boats of mine a-boating--
Where will all come home?

On goes the river
And out past the mill,
Away down the valley,
Away down the hill.

Away down the river,
A hundred miles or more,
Other little children
Shall bring my boats ashore.

MLA

Stevenson, Robert Louis. “Where Go the Boats?” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/stevenson/13/.

Chicago

Stevenson, Robert Louis. “Where Go the Boats?” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/stevenson/13/.

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