School Sonnet

Spell, spell, spell!
A dozen words or more;
To your task and learn it well—
School days will soon be o’er.

Write, write, write!
A page all bright and clean;
Seize the moments in their flight,
No lost one fall between.

Learn, learn, learn!
Some useful thing each day.
From early morn till night returns,
Waste not your time in play.