Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FEET, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS


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First Line: Of all the vehicles we meet
Last Line: Till I can buy a touring-car!
Subject(s): Feet


Of all the vehicles we meet,
In air and sea and on the street,
I humbly sing the praise of -- feet.

It is not widely understood
How safe are feet, how soundly good,
How firm with supple hardihood.

Consider: feet run not away;
Where feet are put, there feet will stay;
Or turned, feet promptly will obey.

Further consider: feet will not,
However worn, or pinched, or hot,
Explode and wreck your chariot.

And think: however feet may ache,
How many million trips they make
Without a blow-out or a break!

And though the feet are punctured, too,
They mend themselves without ado,
And plod along as good as new.

Feet need no license; feet may go
In narrowest pathways to and fro,
The fairest hidden nooks they know.

Feet linger through a pleasant scene;
Feet run not out of gasoline;
A handy brook, and feet are clean.

Feet in all weathers boldly run;
Heedless of mud their miles are spun,
Nor by the snow are feet undone.

Feet run not over dog or boy;
Do not with raucous horn annoy,
Nor throw their dust on others' joy.

In fine, on feet I'll travel far,
The noblest vehicles there are --
Till I can buy a touring-car!





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