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Foreign Lands
Robert Louis Stevenson
About Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850- 1894) was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He began writing fiction as a teenager. It was the publication of his books Kidnapped and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in 1886 that made him popular. These, along with Treasure Island (1883), are stories of children's interest.
Up into the cherry tree
Who should climb bur 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 have never seen before.
I saw a 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 a sea among the ships,
To where the roads on either hand
Lead onward into fairy land,
Where all the children dine at five,
And where all the playthings come alive.
Available Answers
- 1.
By 'foreign', the poet means something that is
- nor real.
- unfamiliar.
- far off.
- 2.Make a list of all that the child poet sees on climbing up the cherry tree.
- 3.Pick the lines that suggest that the river reflects the sky.
- 4.
What kind of river would you call 'grown-up'?
- 5.
Why does the child poet wish for a 'higher tree'?
- 6.What kind of place does the child poet imagine in the last stanza?
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