Re: G & S revisited, for fun

Margaret,
I've been puzzling over the poem you sent - it reminds me of something.  Could
it have been also put to music at some time?  For some reason The Lumberjack
Song comes to mind.
Kitty

On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 14:18:12 -0600 cathy carpenter <cathyc@rnet.com> wrote:

> Very good!
> Didn't he mean Master Gardener???
> Cathy
> On Monday, December 30, 2002, at 10:29 AM,
> Margaret Lauterbach wrote:
> 
> >> I am the very model of a modern major
> gardener,
> >> with every pest my enemy and every bloom my
> partn-er.
> >> I scrutinize the listings in the newest
> nursery manuals
> >> and thoroughly have trained myself in
> handling of perennials.
> >> I'm practiced in the use and care of half a
> hundred garden tools,
> >> I know the mixing ratios for all the
> two-stroke motor fuels,
> >> I highly value safety and I follow the most
> stringent rules -
> >> And I never fill my mower until well after
> the engine cools!
> >>
> >>
> >> He never fills his mower until well after
> the engine cools
> >> he never fills his mower until well after
> the engine cools
> >> he never fills his mower until well after
> the engine, engine cools!
> >>
> >>
> >> I know my taxonomy from Abutilon to Zinnia;
> >> I know a sickly yucca from a juvenile
> dracinia;
> >> With every pest my enemy and every bloom my
> partn-er,
> >> I am the very model of a modern major
> gardener!
> >>
> >>
> >> I sieze all opportunities for hunting
> beetles Japanese,
> >> and if I please, on bended knees, I greet
> the eager honeybees.
> >> Should aphids dare to venture there,
> >> I'll spare no care toward their dispair,
> >> but share my garden fair with any mantis
> gallavanting there!
> >> Of grafting, double-digging and deadheading
> I know quite a bit.
> >> Whatever you would care to name I'll wager I
> have planted it.
> >> To purchase fertilizer, I don't buy just any
> brand of ... manure...
> >> and I'm always careful with my speech and
> you can count on that for 
> >> sure!
> >>
> >>
> >> He is always careful with his speech and you
> can count on that for 
> >> sure,
> >> he's always careful with his speech and you
> can count on that for sure,
> >> always careful with his speech
> >> and you can count on that for, that for
> sure!
> >>
> >>
> >> Then I can re-create the hanging gardens of
> old Babylon,
> >> or grade a level lawn for you to put a
> picnic table on.
> >> With every pest my enemy and every bloom my
> partn-er
> >> I am the very model of a modern major
> gardener!
> >>
> >>
> >> In fact when I know what is meant by
> "chloroplast" and "cambium;"
> >> When I can tell at sight mite infestation on
> geranium;
> >> When black spot, mildews, smuts, rust,
> scorch and dodder I'm more wary 
> >> at,
> >> and when I know precisely what is in Lasso
> and Lariat,
> >> then I can drape a table with the harvest's
> flavor subtleties,
> >> Or spread a bed of flowers making color for
> your eye to see.
> >> In short, when I can please the various
> senses with such things as 
> >> these -
> >> You'll say a better Major Garden-er has
> never stained his knees!
> >>
> >>
> >> For I've applied my genius to the wond'rous
> field of Botany
> >> where I find fascination where most others
> find monotony;
> >> with every pest my enemy and every bloom my
> partn-er,
> >> I am the very model of a modern major
> gardener!
> >>
> >> - - A
> >
> > Composed by Alex Silbajoris, re-sent with
> permission
> >
> >
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