Re: CULT:Insect Predators of Borer--Circa 1928


Donald Mosser wrote:
> 
> Griff,
> 
> Is it?:
> 
> The Mikado
> A WANDERING MINSTREL I
> Libretto by William S. Gilbert
> Music by Sir Arthur Sullivan
> 
> Original lyrics: "Our warriors, in serried ranks assembled,
> Never quail--or they conceal it if they do-- "
> 
> The word substituted being warriors.
> 
> -Donald
>

Right you are, Donald! -- Out of all the "ballads, songs and snatches",
you have snared the right one -- and even improved upon my faulty memory
with "quail", rather than "flinch". Let me know off-list your preferred
rhizome(s), and we will see what matches up with the garden.

Griff



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