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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=365937" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Garden of Helen de Grues</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">She'd bought the old McWilliams place<br>In the Valley of Compère, <br>After McWilliams hanged himself<br>In an orgy of despair, <br>The Banks were ripe to foreclose on him<br>When his stocks went through the floor, <br>And he shot and wounded the bailiff<br>Nailing the notice to his door.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She got the place for a snap, they said, <br>Knocked down to the only bid, <br>The neighbours went to the auction just<br>To see what the stranger did, <br>One finger up at the starting price<br>And she stared the sniggers down, <br>A South American beauty, she<br>Was new to our border town.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The weather was hot and sultry as<br>It was at that time of year, <br>More humid down in the valley, too<br>Uncomfortable living there, <br>We wondered whether she knew just what<br>She'd bought, it wasn't the views, <br>Old Mac had planted all carnivores<br>She found, did Helen de Grues.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The place was a tropical stew down there<br>But there wasn't a single fly, <br>With all of the Venus fly-traps there<br>They came and they saw, to die, <br>The river meandered past her place<br>But mosquito's were nowhere around, <br>For all of the pesky insects there<br>That place was a killing ground.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We thought that she'd rip them out, but no, <br>She added a thousand more, <br>Brought species from South America that<br>We'd not even heard of before, <br>There were pitfall traps like you've never seen<br>And they grew like steam in the heat, <br>And they took small birds and reptiles when<br>They'd not had enough to eat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Mayor called on Helen de Grues<br>To tell her the latest spin, <br>The council was seizing half of her land, <br>And putting a highway in, <br>She fought like a savage tigress, <br>Took the councillors all to court, <br>‘You're far too late, ' said the magistrate, <br>‘You should have checked on what you'd bought! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The plans allowed for an easement, they<br>Could do with it what they would, <br>And a highway down to Disaster Bay<br>Was planned, submitted, approved, <br>But Helen put a good face on it, <br>Invited the councillors down, <br>She put on a spread, on the land where they said<br>They would rip her plants from the ground.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The councillors never went back again, <br>Most of them never got home, <br>The giant Nepenthes saw to that<br>As they stripped each one to the bone, <br>The Mayor was lost by the river bank, <br>She said he couldn't be sillier, <br>‘It wasn't a plant, ' said Helen de Grues, <br>‘But a giant Crocodilia! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Lewis+Paget">David Lewis Paget</a><div class=q>
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In the Valley of Compère, 
After McWilliams hanged himself
In an orgy of despair, 
The Banks were ripe to foreclose on him
When his stocks went through the floor, 
And he shot and wounded the bailiff
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