{
 "id": "robert-louis-stevenson/the-wind",
 "title": "The Wind",
 "ordinal": null,
 "subtitle": null,
 "poet": "Robert Louis Stevenson",
 "poet_slug": "robert-louis-stevenson",
 "language": "en",
 "book": "A Child's Garden of Verses",
 "book_slug": "childs-garden-of-verses",
 "book_kind": "volume",
 "sequence": null,
 "container": null,
 "epigraph": null,
 "first_published": {
  "year": 1885,
  "venue": "A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)",
  "note": "First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established.",
  "uncertain": false,
  "sources": [
   "https://archive.org/details/achildsgardenve04stevgoog"
  ]
 },
 "source": {
  "kind": "standard-ebooks",
  "repo": "standardebooks/robert-louis-stevenson_poetry",
  "file": "poetry.xhtml",
  "upstream": [
   "https://archive.org/details/worksofrobertlvol28stev",
   "https://archive.org/details/worksofrobertlou14stev",
   "https://archive.org/details/newpoemsandvaria00stevuoft",
   "https://archive.org/details/poemshithertounp00stevrich",
   "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31291",
   "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30659",
   "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/441",
   "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems,_by_Robert_Louis_Stevenson,_hitherto_unpublished"
  ],
  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
 },
 "verification": {
  "level": "structural-only",
  "last_checked": "2026-08-20"
 },
 "stats": {
  "n_lines": 18,
  "n_stanzas": 3,
  "n_parts": 0,
  "longest_line_chars": 38,
  "max_indent": 2
 },
 "site_ready": true,
 "parts": [],
 "stanzas": [
  [
   {
    "text": "I saw you toss the kites on high",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And blow the birds about the sky;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And all around I heard you pass,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Like ladies’ skirts across the grass⁠—",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "O wind, a-blowing all day long,",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "O wind, that sings so loud a song!",
    "indent": 2
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "I saw the different things you did,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "But always you yourself you hid.",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "I felt you push, I heard you call,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "I could not see yourself at all⁠—",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "O wind, a-blowing all day long,",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "O wind, that sings so loud a song!",
    "indent": 2
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "O you that are so strong and cold,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "O blower, are you young or old?",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Are you a beast of field and tree,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Or just a stronger child than me?",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "O wind, a-blowing all day long,",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "O wind, that sings so loud a song!",
    "indent": 2
   }
  ]
 ]
}