The verbs in English are a fright. How can we learn to read and write? Today we speak, but first we spoke; Some faucets leak, but never loke. Today we write, but first we wrote; We bite our tongues, but never bote. About these verbs I sit and think. These verbs don't fit. They seem to wink At me, who sat for years and thought Of verbs that never fat or wrought.