<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357569" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Gardeners Grouch</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">There's a looper caterpillar in my lupins,<br>There are weevils weaving strands about my stocks,<br>There are throngs of thieving thrips<br>On my seedlings and my slips,<br>And the hoppers hop around my hollyhocks.<br>While the aphis eats my early antirrhinums,<br>All oblivious to the dreadful damage done,<br>And the jassids, jazzing gaily<br>Round dead jonquils, jar me daily ....<br>Yet I'd thought to take up gardening 'just for fun.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have blown 'em with a bellows filled with sulphur;<br>I've assaulted 'em with arsenate of lead;<br>I have prayed a vengeful prayer<br>As I sprayed 'em with a sprayer;<br>But the cross-grained little cuses won't stay dead!<br>I have bathed 'em with enough benzole emulsion<br>And deadly drugs to dropp them in their tracks;<br>Then I vainly sought their slaughter<br>With a stong tobacco water ....<br>And I'd thought to take up gardening 'to relax.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now the strange, unlovely scent of lime-and-sulphur<br>Outvies the sweet bouquet of bud and bloom.<br>And the smell of Bordeaux mixture<br>On my person is a fixture;<br>So my wife won't let me in our drawing room.<br>Dark odors hang about herbaceous borders<br>Where I seek the stealthy sluglet after dark.<br>But my garden has undone me:<br>Even little children shun me ....<br> And I'd thought to take up gardening 'for a lark.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clarence+Michael+James+Stanislaus+Dennis">Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357569" data-title="Gardeners Grouch de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="There's a looper caterpillar in my lupins, There are weevils weaving strands about my stocks, There are throngs of thieving thrips On my seedlings and my slips, And the hoppers hop around my hollyhocks. While the aphis eats my early antirrhinums, ..."></div> </div> </div>

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