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6 Poem Comprehension

Read this poem.

The Swing

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!

—Robert Louis Stevenson

Help the little child talk about going up on a swing.

It is the pleasantest thing to do because:

1. so blue.

2. It is something that even it.

3. The swing goes up over till she can

see all the .

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