Source: Project Gutenberg #136
Source URL: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/136
Public domain basis: Public-domain English poems by Robert Louis Stevenson (1885).
Coverage: Complete individual poem extracted from parent edition a-childs-garden-of-verses at bytes 26880-27580; checksum e2038300c387e6d44ea627e257be1fbb5d41906e2d7fdf26d5bdd9432fc4609e.


# The Hayloft

The Hayloft

  Through all the pleasant meadow-side
       The grass grew shoulder-high,
  Till the shining scythes went far and wide
       And cut it down to dry.

  Those green and sweetly smelling crops
       They led in waggons home;
  And they piled them here in mountain tops
       For mountaineers to roam.

  Here is Mount Clear, Mount Rusty-Nail,
       Mount Eagle and Mount High;--
  The mice that in these mountains dwell,
       No happier are than I!

  Oh, what a joy to clamber there,
       Oh, what a place for play,
  With the sweet, the dim, the dusty air,
       The happy hills of hay!


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