Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850–1894). A Child’s Garden of Verses and Underwoods. 1913.

12. Singing

OF speckled eggs the birdie sings

And nests among the trees;

The sailor sings of ropes and things

In ships upon the seas.

The children sing in far Japan,

The children sing in Spain;

The organ with the organ man

Is singing in the rain.