Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, GEOGRAPHY JOURNEYS, by ANNETTE WYNNE


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GEOGRAPHY JOURNEYS, by                    
First Line: We do not take a car at all, and yet we
Last Line: But never stay abroad to play.
Subject(s): Children; Exchange Students; February; Geography; Travel; Childhood; Foreign Exchange Programs; Journeys; Trips


WE do not take a car at all, and yet we traveling go.
In every kind of foreign land, through desert and through snow;
The queerest kind of children we meet along the way,
But we are busy studying—we cannot stop for play.

We do not take a ship at all, and yet we sail the seas,
The North and South and East and West, in every sort of breeze.
Our journeying is very swift, we must be back to-day,
We came out here to study, so we cannot stop for play.

We do not take an air ship to go into the sky,
And yet we visit in the air and watch the moon go by.
The sky is very pretty but we haven't time to stay,
We're studying this all in a book—it isn't only play.

Safe in our seats with book in hand,
We travel swiftly through the land,
We sail the sea and sky and all,
And never fear to sink or fall.
We make far journeys every day,
But never stay abroad to play.





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