The Sun Travels

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1885

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

14 content lines · 83 words · Est. recitation about 50 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.

The Sun Travels

  The sun is not a-bed, when I
  At night upon my pillow lie;
  Still round the earth his way he takes,
  And morning after morning makes.

  While here at home, in shining day,
  We round the sunny garden play,
  Each little Indian sleepy-head
  Is being kissed and put to bed.

  And when at eve I rise from tea,
  Day dawns beyond the Atlantic Sea;
  And all the children in the west
  Are getting up and being dressed.


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