The Gardener`s Hymn.

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All thing`s bright and beautiful,
All creatures great and small,
All thing`s wise and wonderful,
The Lord God made them all.

But what we never mention,
although gardeners know it`s true,
Is 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 Fuchsias,
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 eat the plums.
How black the gardener`s outlook,
though green may be his thumbs.

But still we gardeners labor,
midst vegetables and flowers,
And pray what hits our neighbors`
Will somehow bypass ours.

• 28 Feb, 2012
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