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There are many things that boys may know -- / Why this and that are thus and so, -- / Who made the world in the dark and lit / The great sun up to lighten it: / Boys know new things every day -- / When they study, or when they play, -- / When they idle, or sow and reap -- / But no boy knows when he goes to sleep.
Boys who listen -- or should, at least, -- / May know that the round old earth rolls East; -- / And know that the ice and the snow and the rain -- / Ever repeating their parts again -- / Are all just water the sunbeams first / Sip from the earth in their endless thirst, / And pour again till the low streams leap. -- / But no boy knows when he goes to sleep.