"The Wind" from the book "A Child's Garden of Verses" written by Robert Louis Stevenson, illustrated by Ruth Mary Hallock

Jo Anne McKinley
The Golden Age Of Illustration



Ruth Mary Hallock (American, 1876-1945)

An illustration of "The Wind" from the book "A Child's Garden of Verses" written by Robert Louis Stevenson, illustrated by Ruth Mary Hallock, published by Rand McNally, Chicago, 1919.
"I saw you toss the kites on high
And blow the birds about the sky;
And all around I heard you pass,
Like ladies' skirts across the grass—
O wind, a-blowing all day long,
O wind, that sings so loud a song!"