Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SUCH FUNNY THINGS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY


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SUCH FUNNY THINGS, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They teach such funny things in school!
Last Line: Or see the things I see!
Subject(s): Children; Earth; Geography; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Childhood; World; Students


THEY teach such funny things in school!
I never say a word,
But when it's four o'clock I just
Can't b'lieve the things I've heard.

They say the earth is round, just like
A ball, and you can go
For miles and never find the edge
Though you try ever so!

They say that should you dig right through
The other side you'd find,
And lots of China boys and girls
With pig-tails down behind.

(One day I digged a 'normus hole
But, though I tried and tried
And digged and digged, I never came
Out on the other side).

They say the twinkly stars are not
Hung up by strings at all—
But then you know they have to be
Or else they'd surely fall!

They say there isn't any sky
Turned over like a bowl
And that the blue's not blue at all
But just a big black hole.

And when the shiny sun goes down
Like a great yellow ball
Into the sea at supper time,
It isn't wet at all!

(But this, I think, is likely true,
Because, beyond a doubt,
If it got very soaking wet
Its fire would go quite out.)

They say I do not see the moon
Move right across the sky—
But then, you know, I do, as they
Can see as well as I!

O dear! they say such funny things,
I'm hardly sure I'm me,
I hardly know the things I know
Or see the things I see!





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