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The Gardeners Hymn Recipe
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Sitbynellie / All my dishes 6 months, 1 week ago
As our gardens burst forth into life with a vengeance (or at least the weeds do), here is a paeon to the joys of gardening.
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- All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small;
- All things wise and wonderful, the Lord God made them all.
- But what we never mention, though goodness knows it's true;
- Lo, when he made the goodies, he made the baddies too.
- All things spray and swattable, disasters great and small;
- All things paraquatable, the Lord God made them all.
- The greenfly on the roses, the maggots in the peas,
- Manure that fills our noses - He also gave us these:
- The fungus on the goosegogs, the club root on the greens,
- The slugs that eat the lettuce, and chew the aubergines;
- The drought that kills the fuchsia, the frost that nips the buds,
- The rain that drowns the seedlings, the blight that hits the spuds;
- The midges and mosquitoes, the nettles and the weeds,
- The pigeons in the green stuff, the sparrows on the seeds;
- The fly that gets the carrots, the wasp that eats the plums:
- How black the gardener's outlook, though green may be his thumbs.
- But still we gardeners labour, 'midst vegetables and flowers,
- And pray what hits our neighbour's will somehow bypass ours!
- All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small;
- All things wise and wonderful - the Lord God made them all.
- Dalone Peel: Chronicle of St. Barnabas, Autumn 1997.
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goblue434 6 months ago said:
Nice, Very Nice!
momo_55grandma 6 months ago said:
Love it thanks
debbie919 6 months ago said:
Very cute,and and true!... thanks!
donman 6 months ago said:
Thanks Susan.
Nice post :)
lor 2 months ago said:
Brilliant poem, absolutely brilliant! HIGH 5!!!