# Windy Nights - Source: A Child's Garden of Verses (child-garden.gutenberg.org), Public domain, Robert Louis Stevenson, 1885; pictures by Jessie Willcox Smith, 1905; via Project Gutenberg - Reading level: Grades 1 and 2 - Subjects: Poems - Topics: gallop, goes, night, whenever, again, back - Length: 82 words, about 1 min - Original: - Page: - Open in Sprouts: Whenever the moon and stars are set, Whenever the wind is high, All night long in the dark and wet, A man goes riding by. Late in the night when the fires are out, Why does he gallop and gallop about? Whenever the trees are crying aloud, And ships are tossed at sea, By, on the highway, low and loud, By at the gallop goes he. By at the gallop he goes, and then By he comes back at the gallop again. ## Picture credits - Jessie Willcox Smith, Public domain ()