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The Town Child

Recitation Skills

I live in the town,
In a street;

It is crowded with traffic,

And feet;

There are buses and motors,

And trams;

I wish there were meadows,

And lambs.

The houses all wait,

In a row, What does a child in a town
see on the road? I don’t like the noises
There is smoke everywhere,
I hear-
That I go.
I wish there were woods

Very near.
There is only one thing

That I love,

And that is the sky

Far above,

There is plenty of room

In the blue,

For castles of clouds
And me, too!

Word Power

crowded: with many people row: in a line
trams: a vehicle that runs on tracks on the woods: forest

roads castles: big buildings
meadow: green grass traffic: vehicles moving on roads

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