Autumn Fires

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1885

Catalog grade guidance: K–5 — Short children’s lyric; good for early memorization and reading aloud.

14 content lines · 53 words · Est. recitation about 35 sec (approx.)

Public-domain text for reading and recitation practice. Source: Project Gutenberg #136.Estimated time uses ~120 words/minute plus short pauses—not a contest rule.

Autumn Fires

  In the other gardens
       And all up the vale,
  From the autumn bonfires
       See the smoke trail!

  Pleasant summer over
       And all the summer flowers,
  The red fire blazes,
       The grey smoke towers.

  Sing a song of seasons!
       Something bright in all!
  Flowers in the summer,
       Fires in the fall!


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