Singing

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1885

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

10 content lines · 47 words · Est. recitation about 30 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.

Singing

  Of speckled eggs the birdie sings
       And nests among the trees;
  The sailor sings of ropes and things
       In ships upon the seas.

  The children sing in far Japan,
       The children sing in Spain;
  The organ with the organ man
       Is singing in the rain.


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