Classic Poem

I want to know why when I'm late
For school, they get into a state,
But if invited out to tea
I must'n ever early be.

Why, if I'm eating nice and slow,
It's “Slow-coach, hurry up, you know!”
But if I'm eating nice and quick
It's “Gobble-gobble, you'll be sick!”

Why, when I'm walking in the street
My clothes must always be complete,
While at the seaside I can call
It right with nothing on at all.

Why I must always go to bed
When other people don't instead,
And why I have to say good-night
Always before I'm ready, quite.

Why seeds grow up instead of down,
Why sixpence isn't half a crown,
Why kittens are so quickly cats
And why the angels have no hats.

It seems, however hard they try,
That nobody can tell me why,
So I know really, I suppose,
As much as anybody knows.