# The Hayloft

- 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, Animals, Nature
- Topics: mount, dusty, dwell, eagle, grass, grew
- Length: 95 words, about 1 min
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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.

Those green and sweetly smelling crops  
They led in waggons 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!

Oh, what a joy to clamber there,  
Oh, what a place for play,  
With the sweet, the dim, the dusty air,  
The happy hills of hay!

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## Picture credits

- Jessie Willcox Smith, Public domain (<https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/25609/pg25609-images.html>)