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<h1> I Keep six honest serving-men</h1>
<h2> By Rudyard Kipling </h2>
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I Keep six honest serving-men:<br/>
(They taught me all I knew)<br/>
Their names are What and Where and When<br/>
And How and Why and Who.<br/>
I send them over land and sea,<br/>
I send them east and west;<br/>
But after they have worked for me,<br/>
I give them all a rest.<br/>
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I let them rest from nine till five.<br/>
For I am busy then,<br/>
As well as breakfast, lunch, and tea,<br/>
For they are hungry men:<br/>
But different folk have different views:<br/>
I know a person small—<br/>
She keeps ten million serving-men,<br/>
Who get no rest at all!<br/>
She sends ‘em abroad on her own affairs,<br/>
From the second she opens her eyes—<br/>
One million Hows, two million Wheres,<br/>
And seven million Whys!<br/></p>
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