Autumn Fires

Robert Louis Stevenson

Teacher card

Published: 1885, in A Child's Garden of Verses
Length: 12 lines, 50 words, 1 word in 50 is long
Year band: Reading load: Years 3–4. A guide from word length, not a curriculum level.
Themes: autumn
Time: 5–10 min, depending on the activity

The text

In the other gardensAnd all up the vale,From the autumn bonfiresSee the smoke trail!

Pleasant summer overAnd all the summer flowers,The red fire blazes,The grey smoke towers.

Sing a song of seasons!Something bright in all!Flowers in the summer,Fires in the fall!

Robert Louis Stevenson (died 1894), A Child's Garden of Verses (1885), lines 2048–2061 of Project Gutenberg ebook #25609. Public domain in Australia: the author died before 1955. Copied word for word and checked against the ebook.

What to do with it

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Its lines are dealt for the sky in the weather poemsin weatherline · 12 lines · about 5–10 min
Task for students (you can change the sentence before you print; nothing is saved)See where weatherline takes lines from this poem, then read today's poem the sky has chosen.
See where weatherline takes lines from this poem, then read today's poem the sky has chosen.
weatherline.popplepoetry.com/sources#rl-autumn

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Link for the whole text

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