Rudyard Kipling Quotes

I Keep Six Honest Serving Men ..."

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.

I Let Them Rest From Nine Till Five,
For I Am Busy Then,
As Well As Breakfast, Lunch, And Tea,
For They Are Hungry Men.

But Different Folk Have Different Views;
I Know A Person Small -
She Keeps Ten Million Serving-men,
Who Get No Rest At All!

She Sends'em Abroad On Her Own Affairs,
From The Second She Opens Her Eyes -
One Million Hows, Two Million Wheres,
And Seven Million Whys!

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