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“Foreign Lands”
Robert Louis Stevenson
 Up into the cherry tree
 Who should climb but little me?
 I held the trunk with both my hands
 And looked abroad in foreign lands.
 
 I saw the next door garden lie,
 Adorned with flowers, before my eye,
 And many pleasant places more
 That I had never seen before.
 
 I saw the dimpling river pass
 And be the sky’s blue looking-glass;
 The dusty roads go up and down
 With people tramping in to town.
 
 If I could find a higher tree
 Farther and farther I should see,
 To where the grown-up river slips
 Into the sea among the ships,
 
 To where the roads on either hand
 Lead onward into fairy land,
 Where all the children dine at five,
 And all the playthings come alive.
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