This poem, "A Child's Garden of Verses" expresses the problem many people have with getting up when it is dark in the morning and going to bed in the evening when it is still light outside. Then, in "When We Were Very Young" Children, unlike their parents, tend to embrace verse with fierce and unembarrassed joy.
The Sahel, the vast semi-arid region of Africa separating the Sahara Desert to the north and tropical savannas to the south, is as much a land of opportunities as it is of challenges.
