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There Is Are

The poem describes the six honest serving men that help the speaker understand the world: What, Why, When, How, Where, and Who. The speaker sends them all over the world to work but gives them rest from 9 to 5 each day since they work hard. In contrast, the poem notes that a small person employs over ten million serving men who never rest and are constantly working to understand the world from the moment she wakes up.

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There Is Are

The poem describes the six honest serving men that help the speaker understand the world: What, Why, When, How, Where, and Who. The speaker sends them all over the world to work but gives them rest from 9 to 5 each day since they work hard. In contrast, the poem notes that a small person employs over ten million serving men who never rest and are constantly working to understand the world from the moment she wakes up.

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I Keep Six Honest

Serving Men

I KEEP six honest serving-men


(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.
I send them over land and sea,
I send them east and west;
But after they have worked for me,
I give them all a rest.

I let them rest from nine till five,


For I am busy then,
As well as breakfast, lunch, and tea,
For they are hungry men.
But different folk have different views;
I know a person small—
She keeps ten million serving-men,
Who get no rest at all!

She sends'em abroad on her own affairs,


From the second she opens her eyes—
One million Hows, two million Wheres,
And seven million Whys!

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