"Where Go the Boats?" by Robert Louis Stevenson

Yesterday I posted a video of Jordan Harling reading the classic poem "Paper Boats" by Rabindranath Tagore. That poem is good for children. Here is another poem about boats, a poem from A Child's Garden of Verses (1885) by Robert Louis Stevenson. A Child's Garden of Verses is a small collection of poems evoking the world and feelings of childhood.


WHERE GO THE BOATS?

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.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

Scottish author