I Am A Child Of

See How The Fates Their Gifts Allot, For A Is Happy-b Is Not. Yet B Is Worthy, I Dare Say, Of More Prosperity Than A.

It's True I've Got No Shirts To Wear; It's True My Butcher's Bill Is Due; It's True My Prospects All Look Blue - But Don't Let That Unsettle You.

Spurn Not The Nobly Born With Love Affected; Nor Treat With Virtuous Scorn The Well Connected.

I'm Very Good At Integral And Differential Calculus, I Know The Scientific Names Of Beings Animalculous; In Short, In Matters Vegetable, Animal, And Mineral, I Am The Very Model Of A Modern Major-general.

Life's A Pudding Full Of Plums.