Heat And Cold

Our earth has a North Pole,

Where 'tis very cold;

It also has a South Pole,

That's just the same, we're told.

But half-way between,

And all the way around,

We call it the Equator,

And heat doth there abound.

For there the sun shines always,

Though it goes north or south

Some twenty-three degrees or more,

And sometimes causes drouth.

The sun goes north, we call it.

But 'tis the earth instead,

That tips, and makes it seem the sun

Comes higher overhead.

And when the sun is northward

'Tis summer here, you see;

And when it's to the southward

'Tis there in same degree.