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Fao Mrs O ...
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Following on from your "dandelions are dangerous" thread earlier the poor little dandelions are getting their own back on you for digging one up ........ I found this little poem :)
The Dandelion’s Lament
“Oh I wish I were a pretty flower”
The dandelion said.
“Then people would admire me
But they wish me gone instead!
Now if I could be a snowdrop
So pure and sparkling white
Or a bluebell with a nodding head
Well! that would be alright!
Or a sweet shy shrinking violet
She’s such a pretty thing,
Or a cowslip or a celandine
Then I’d be welcome in the Spring.
Perhaps a stately foxglove
So loved by all the bees,
Or fragrant honeysuckle
Then I’d be sure to please!
But there’s some who try to poison me
And – Ouch- pull off my head,
Or get the hoe and cut me down
And call me wee-the-bed ....
But during the Creation
The Good Lord, he decreed,
That while some would get the glory
I’d be a blooming weed!
So despite their sprays and potions
Of this, please have no fear –
I’ll still go forth and multiply
- and see you all next year!”
The Dandelion’s Lament
“Oh I wish I were a pretty flower”
The dandelion said.
“Then people would admire me
But they wish me gone instead!
Now if I could be a snowdrop
So pure and sparkling white
Or a bluebell with a nodding head
Well! that would be alright!
Or a sweet shy shrinking violet
She’s such a pretty thing,
Or a cowslip or a celandine
Then I’d be welcome in the Spring.
Perhaps a stately foxglove
So loved by all the bees,
Or fragrant honeysuckle
Then I’d be sure to please!
But there’s some who try to poison me
And – Ouch- pull off my head,
Or get the hoe and cut me down
And call me wee-the-bed ....
But during the Creation
The Good Lord, he decreed,
That while some would get the glory
I’d be a blooming weed!
So despite their sprays and potions
Of this, please have no fear –
I’ll still go forth and multiply
- and see you all next year!”
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