How do you like to go up in a swing,
Up in the air so blue?
Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing
Ever a child can do!
Up in the air and over the wall,
Till I can see so wide,
Rivers and trees and cattle and all
Over the countryside—
Till I look down on the garden green,
Down on the roof so brown—
Up in the air I go flying again,
Up in the air and down!
The poem was written in the 1880's and is included in A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)
I choose to illustrate the first two lines with my card. I used the Tattered Lace die Summer Swing, cut several times to add coloured layers, with crystal flowers added too, mounted on a sky background from Crafts U Print.
I used another of Louis Stevenson's poems last year in my challenge, see Bedtime
The card also reminds me a bit of this picture stitched by my Grandma when she was 13, it now hangs on my bedroom wall.
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