THE MAD GARDENERS SONG
He thought he saw an elephant
That practised on a fife:
He looked again, and found it was
a letter from his wife.
"At lenght I realise, "he said,
The bitterness of life!"
He thought he saw a Buffalo
Upon the chimney-piece:
He looked again, and found it was
His Sister's Husband's niece.
"Unless you leave this house, "he said,
Ï'll send for the police!"
He thought he saw a Rattlesnake
That questioned him in Greek :
He looked again, and found it was
The Middle of Next Week.
"The one thing I regret," he said
Ïs that it cannot speak!"
From a nonsense rhyme by C.L. Dodgson.