In reading The Gap you’ll know why Kiplings’ ‘Six Honest Serving Men’ is here, for you to ponder – Enjoy!
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 til 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 How’s, two millions Where’s,
And seven million Whys!
Rudyard Kipling