The poem 'The Swing'

Open your book, Santoor, at page 103 and read the poem 'The Swing' by Robert Louis Stevenson. Read it aloud, or ask someone to read it with you.

Here is what the poem tells, in short. The child in the poem asks us how we like going up in a swing, high into the blue air. He says it is the pleasantest thing a child can ever do. Pleasantest means the most enjoyable.

As the swing goes up and over the garden wall, he can see far and wide. He sees rivers and trees and cattle, all over the countryside. (Cattle are cows and oxen. The countryside is the land of fields and villages outside a town.)

Then the swing comes back, and he looks down on the green garden and the brown roof of the house. Up in the air he goes flying again, up and down, up and down. The whole poem shows how much he loves to swing.