Thursday 17 April 2014

I Keep Six Honest Serving Men...

...(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.
I send them over land and sea,
I send them east and west;
But after they have worked for me,
I give them all a rest.

3 comments:

  1. Do you know who wrote this? I've come across it before and it is very good sense.

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    1. It's a poem by Rudyard Kipling in the "Just So Stories"
      http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_serving.htm

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