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IslamicPoemsForChildren, page : 101
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Have you ever thought about your skin
how it keeps the outside out and your inside in?
And have you noticed when you cut your knee
how your skin recovers rapidly.
Skin covers us from head to toe
and grows with us as we grow.
When we laugh we've seen it change shape
and turn quite pale when we stay up late.
Now stop for a while in amazement and linger
and look at the skin upon your fingers,
Have you ever thought about your skin
how it keeps the outside out and your inside in?
And have you noticed when you cut your knee
how your skin recovers rapidly.
Skin covers us from head to toe
and grows with us as we grow.
When we laugh we've seen it change shape
and turn quite pale when we stay up late.
Now stop for a while in amazement and linger
and look at the skin upon your fingers,