• Oh, for boyhood's painless play, sleep that wakes in laughing day, health that mocks the doctor's rules, knowledge never learned of schools.

  John Greenleaf Whittier
  American poet and writer 1807-1892
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. knowledge
2. laughing
3. learned
4. schools
5. rules
6. never

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Oh, for boyhood's painless play, sleep that wakes in laughing day, health that mocks the doctor's rules, knowledge never learned of schools. by : John Greenleaf Whittier

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