The Swing

The Outlawz Song and Rhyme challenge for 17th March, is based on the poem The Swing by Robert Louis Stevenson

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!

The poem was written in the 1880’s and is included in A Child’s Garden of Verses (1885)

I choose to illustrate the first two lines with my card. I used the Tattered Lace die Summer Swing, cut several times to add coloured layers, with crystal flowers added too, mounted on a sky background from Crafts U Print.

I used another of Louis Stevenson’s poems last year in my challenge, see Bedtime.

The card also reminded me a bit of this picture stitched by my grandma when she was 13, which now hangs in my bedroom.