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Pirate Story

Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894).  A Child's Garden of Verses and Underwoods.  1913.
  
Pirate Story

THREE of us afloat in the meadow by the swing,  
   Three of us aboard in the basket on the lea.  
Winds are in the air, they are blowing in the spring,  
  And waves are on the meadow like the waves there are at sea.  
  
Where shall we adventure, to-day that we're afloat,          5
  Wary of the weather and steering by a star?  
Shall it be to Africa, a-steering of the boat,  
  To Providence, or Babylon, or off to Malabar?  
  
Hi! but here's a squadron a-rowing on the sea

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