"Where Go the Boats" by Robert Louis Stevenson

Illustration by Clara M. Burd, from A Child's Garden of Verses, 1930 Edition.

Dark brown is the river,

Golden is the sand.

It flows along for ever,

With trees on either hand.

Green leaves a-floating,

Castles of the foam,

Boats of mine a-boating—

Where will all come home?

On goes the river

And out past the mill,

Away down the valley,

A way down the hill.

Away down the river,

A hundred miles or more,

Other little children

Shall bring my boats ashore.

"Where Go the Boats" by  Robert Louis Stevenson from Selected Poems. © Penguin Classics, 1999.