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Author: Robert Louis Stevenson | Date: 1885

XXXIX. THE HAYLOFT

THROUGH all the pleasant meadow-side

The grass grew shoulder-high,

Till the shining scythes went far and wide

And cut it down to dry.

These green and sweetly-smelling crops

They led in wagons home:

And they piled them here in mountain-tops

For mountaineers to roam.

Here is Mount Clear, Mount Rusty Nail,

Mount Eagle and Mount High;-

The mice that in these mountains dwell,

No happier are than I!

O what a joy to clamber there,

O what a place for play,

With the sweet, the dim, the dusty air,

The happy hills of hay.

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Chicago: Robert Louis Stevenson, "XXXIX. The Hayloft," A Child’s Garden of Verses Original Sources, accessed November 4, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=UVB8P7AYYTA8YNB.

MLA: Stevenson, Robert Louis. "XXXIX. The Hayloft." A Child’s Garden of Verses, Original Sources. 4 Nov. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=UVB8P7AYYTA8YNB.

Harvard: Stevenson, RL, 'XXXIX. The Hayloft' in A Child’s Garden of Verses. Original Sources, retrieved 4 November 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=UVB8P7AYYTA8YNB.