<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416712" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>No Boy Knows</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">There are many things that boys may know--<br>Why this and that are thus and so,--<br>Who made the world in the dark and lit<br>The great sun up to lighten it:<br>Boys know new things every day--<br>When they study, or when they play,--<br>When they idle, or sow and reap--<br>But no boy knows when he goes to sleep.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Boys who listen--or should, at least,--<br>May know that the round old earth rolls East;--<br>And know that the ice and the snow and the rain--<br>Ever repeating their parts again--<br>Are all just water the sunbeams first<br>Sip from the earth in their endless thirst,<br>And pour again till the low streams leap.--<br>But no boy knows when he goes to sleep.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A boy may know what a long glad while<br>It has been to him since the dawn's first smile,<br>When forth he fared in the realm divine<br>Of brook-laced woodland and spun-sunshine;--<br>He may know each call of his truant mates,<br>And the paths they went,--and the pasture-gates<br>Of the 'cross-lots home through the dusk so deep.--<br>But no boy knows when he goes to sleep.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O I have followed me, o'er and o'er,<br>From the flagrant drowse on the parlor-floor,<br>To the pleading voice of the mother when<br>I even doubted I heard it then--<br>To the sense of a kiss, and a moonlit room,<br>And dewy odors of locust-bloom--<br>A sweet white cot--and a cricket's cheep.--<br>But no boy knows when he goes to sleep.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Whitcomb+Riley">James Whitcomb Riley</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416712" data-title="No Boy Knows de James Whitcomb Riley" data-description="There are many things that boys may know-- Why this and that are thus and so,-- Who made the world in the dark and lit The great sun up to lighten it: Boys know new things every day-- When they study, or when they play,-- When they idle, or sow an..."></div> </div> </div>

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