A Child's Own Book of Verse II by  Ada M. Skinner

Where Go the Boats?

Dark brown is the river,

Golden is the sand.

It flows along forever,

With trees on every 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.


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