Gateway to the Classics: A Child's Own Book of Verse, Book One by Ada M. Skinner and Frances Gillespy Wickes
 
A Child's Own Book of Verse, Book One by  Ada M. Skinner and Frances Gillespy Wickes

Singing

Of speckled eggs the birdie sings,

And nests among the trees;

The sailor sings of ropes and things

In ships upon the seas.


The children sing in far Japan,

The children sing in Spain;

The organ with the organ man

Is singing in the rain.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


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