Easy Knowledge

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[28]</SPAN></span></p> <p class="center"><span class="huge">EASY KNOWLEDGE</span></p> <table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> <tr><td> <span class="giant">H</span><small>OW</small> nice 'twould be if knowledge grew<br/> On bushes, as the berries do!<br/> Then we could plant our spelling seed,<br/> And gather all the words we need.<br/> The sums from off our slates we'd wipe,<br/> And wait for figures to be ripe,<br/> And go into the fields, and pick<br/> Whole bushels of arithmetic;<br/> Or if we wished to learn Chinese,<br/> We'd just go out and shake the trees;<br/> And grammar then, in all the towns,<br/> Would grow with proper verbs and nouns;<br/> And in the gardens there would be<br/> Great bunches of geography;<br/> And all the passers-by would stop,<br/> And marvel at the knowledge crop;<br/> And I my pen would cease to push,<br/> And pluck my verses from a bush!</td></tr></table> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />