”The Mad Gardener’s Song” is such a wonderful title that I can’t resist quoting four of the verses from one of my favourite nonsense poems.
He though he saw an Elephant, That practiced on a fife: He looked again, and found it was A letter from his wife. ‘At length I realise’, he said, ‘The bitterness of Life!’ He thought he saw a Banker’s Clerk Descending from the bus: He looked again, and found it was A Hippopoptamus. ‘If this should stay to dine’, he said, ‘There won’t be much for us!’ He thought he saw a Kangaroo The worked a coffee-mill: He looked again, and found it was A Vegetable-Pill. ‘Were I to swallow this,’ he said, ‘I should be very ill!’ He thought he saw a Garden-Door That opened with a key: He looked again, and found it was A Double rule of Three: ‘And all its mystery,’ he said, ‘Is clear as day to me!’ Lewis Carroll
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