For my friend Yvonne

         










When all the days are hot and long

 And robin bird has ceased his song,

 I go swimming every day

And have the finest kind of play.

I've learned to dive and I can float

As easily as does a boat;

 I splash and plunge and laugh and shout

 Till Daddy tells me to come out.

 It's much too soon; I'd like to cry

 For I can see the ducks go by,

 And Daddy Duck--how I love him--

  He lets his children swim and swim!

 I feel that I would be in luck

 If I could only be a duck!