Memorizing poetry

This fall semester finds all our children memorizing poetry for a Friday class and what a joy it is. Our poetry books have been coming down from bookshelves and now are found everywhere in the house!  As I sit here using Husband's laptop, computers being all used by Numbers Three, Four and Five who are need to close academic work for first quarter, I listen to Number Six' delivery of Psalm 23, and Number Five's reading of In the Garret by  Louisa May Alcott (in Little Women).  

Number Seven didn't stay behind and found a four verse poem in her reader for her own memorizaton, by Chesterton:

The Christ Child stood at Mary's knee,

his hair was like a crown,

and all the flowers looked up at Him,

and all the stars looked down.